Vitamins and Hormones serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Preface Gerald Litwack 1. Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Germline Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Germ Cell Differentiation Elizabeth Ables 2. Wnt signaling and mammary stem cells Caroline Alexander 3. Nuclear Receptors and Differentiation of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells Vito A. Baldassarro 4. Steroid Hormones and First Trimester Vascular Remodeling Jimena S. Beltrame 5. Oxysterols and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology Sergio P. Bydlowski 6. Thyroid hormone and hypothalamic stem cells in seasonal functions Hugues Dardente 7. Generation of high yield insulin-producing cells (IPCs) from various sources of stem cells Seyed Ehsan Enderami 8. Estrogen Receptor Beta and Neural Development Jan Ake Gustafsson 9. Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone photoreceptor subtypes during eye development: Insights from model organisms and human stem cell-derived retinal organoids Robert J. Johnston 10. Pituitary Stem Cells Shlomo Melmed 11. Thyroid hormone regulation of adult neural stem cell fate: a comparative analysis between rodents and primates Sylvie Remaud 12. The development of adult intestinal stem cells: Insights from studies on thyroid hormone-dependent anuran metamorphosis Yun-Bo Shi 13. Insights from single cell studies of human pancreatic islets and stem cell-derived islet cells to guide functional beta cell maturation in vitro Adrian Kee Keong Teo 14. Regulation of muscle stem cell function Julia von Maltzahn