Sentences with phrase «kidney cells became»
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The researchers then used a 3 - D cell culture system to coax their mutant and healthy hPSCs down the differentiation pathway into becoming kidney progenitor cells and finally the proximal tubule cells found in kidney nephrons.
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Once it starts, this process is usually irreversible — much as embryonic stem cells have no alternative but to become part of a kidney or cartilage once the biological «switch» is thrown.
Nevertheless, Hahm adds, it appears that «these cells are producing high amounts of suPAR, which becomes the mediator that communicates between the immune system and the kidney.
In the Nature Communications study, UTSW researchers also reported how miR - 17 causes cyst proliferation: the molecule essentially reprograms the metabolism of kidney cells so that cellular structures called mitochondria use less nutrients, freeing up resources to instead make cell parts that become cysts.
A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.
Scientists need to prompt stem cells to become kidney, liver or lung cells, which must then recreate the complex anatomy of a real organ in order to function in a human recipient.
Thus, upon activation by ActD, AKT becomes an inducer of p53 tumor suppression instead of being a survival factor, as consistently shown in human embryonic kidney cell lines (293 and 293T), human hepatoma cell line (HepG2), and mouse hepatoma cell line (Hepa - 1c1c7).
In addition to increased thirst and urine volume (often called PU / PD, meaning polyuria and polydipsia) over time a cat with CRD may become anemic, since the kidneys produce a hormone that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells.
Many animals with CRF become anemic, because the kidneys are also responsible for stimulating production of new blood cells.