In those cases, the NPCs often matured into
adult kidney cells in a manner of days, leaving no steady population of progenitor cells to study.
Not exact matches
«Investigators create complex
kidney structures from human stem
cells derived from
adults: New technique offers model for studying disease, progress toward
cell therapy.»
Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of
Adult Stem
Cell Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule in the development of
kidney structures in zebrafish, a widely used model for human
kidneys.
The
cells were implanted into an
adult mouse, beneath a membrane that surrounds the
kidney.
To confirm that these
cells were, in fact, stem
cells, the scientists transferred them into the
kidneys of
adult mice.
Researchers from Australia generated primitive human
kidney tissues from
adult stem
cells, a recent study says.
Adult stem / progenitor
cells are present in many organs and tissues, e.g., bone marrow, teeth, heart, gut,
kidney and liver, and remain quiescent for long period of time until activated by a disease or injury trigger.