Stem Cells in Neuroendocrinology

A brief overview of techniques for modulating neuroendocrine and other neural systems.- Basics of stem cell biology as applied to the brain.- Human pluripotent-derived lineages for repairing hypopituitarism.- Recapitulating hypothalamus and pituitary development using ES/iPS cells.- Regulation of body weight and metabolism by tanycyte-derived neurogenesis in young adult mice.- Genetic dissection of the neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to stressful challenges.- Pituitary stem cells: quest for hidden functions.- Pituitary stem cells during normal physiology and disease.- Epigenetic mechanisms of pituitary cell fate specification.- Advances in stem cells biology: new approaches to understand depression.- Perspective on stem cells in developmental biology, with special reference to neuroendocrine systems.