ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Development 2017;144:3289-3302Aberrant development of the anterior pituitary can lead to congenital hypopituitarism (CH) in humans and hence understanding how this organ develops is critical to understand CH. The anterior pituitary develops in intimate contact with the prospective hypothalamus, which secretes growth factors that are required for the pituitary gland to grow...

To read the full abstract: Cell Metab. 2017, Volume 26, Issue 1 Riera et al. developed ways to temporarily eliminate the sense of smell in adult mice. They discovered that mice lacking smell could eat a high-fat diet and stay significantly thinner than littermates with a normal sense of smell. Conversely, mice with hyperosmia gained more weight than wild-type mice on a high-fat diet. ...

Ann Neurol. 2021 Jul;90(1):143-158. doi: 10.1002/ana.26127. PMID: 33999436.Brief Summary: This study identifies biallelic HID1 variants in 7 patients with hypopituitarism and infantile encephalopathy. It provides genetic and functional evidence for a novel gene-disease connection and expands the list of central nervous system diseases caused by impairment of the trans-Golgi network.<p ...

Nature 2020; 583: 596–602https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2499-yIn order to understand the cellular processes that underlie ageing, the authors performed plasma proteomics at 10 different ages across the lifespan of the mouse. They integrated these data with a parallel large study published alongside this paper in the same edition (1), which describes the ‘Mouse ...