In observing
kidney cells from the FAN1 knockout mice, the researchers noticed that their nuclei were abnormally large.
Through the ureter, they fed
kidney cells from newborn rats, re-coating the labyrinthine tubules and ducts that make up the kidney's urine filtration system.
Not exact matches
Chinese researchers recently unveiled miniature
kidneys comprised of
cells printed
from a hydrogel material, which live for up to four months.
«But at some point we'll be able fabricate a biodevice
from a patient's own
cells that will duplicate the most important functions of a
kidney and that won't be rejected by the patient's immune system.»
The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic
kidney cells, brain
cell samples and neurons derived
from the stem
cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.
On an additional project with former MIT graduate student Eric Grovender, Ameer co-developed a cartridge filter that purifies blood, «based on protein and
cell engineering,» for those suffering
from chronic
kidney failure.
Renal
cell carcinoma, also known by the eponym Grawitz tumor, is the most common form of
kidney cancer arising
from the renal tubule.
Stem
cells in babies» urine seem to help regenerate
kidney tissue, protecting it
from toxic drugs and could pep up organs for transplantation
«The promise of this technology is it localizes the drug to the photoreceptor
cells, sparing the liver and
kidney from exposure,» said Krzysztof Palczewski, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
To make the rat
kidneys, Ott and his colleagues took
kidneys from healthy «donor» rats and used a chemical solution to wash away the native
cells, leaving behind the organ's scaffold.
In their latest study, they tested compounds against
cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries,
kidneys, and lungs.
They will have to address side effects such as the flulike symptoms and the
kidney failure that occurred in one patient due to all the dead
cells the body had to cleanse
from the blood.
Blood vessels grown
from a person's own
cells may soon help
kidney dialysis patients.
Gather and Yun did this with
cells derived
from a human
kidney, adding the DNA that codes for GFP.
In the longer term, these methods could hasten progress toward replacing a damaged or diseased
kidney with tissue derived
from a patient's own
cells.
In
kidney cancer, the over-expressed NPTX2 protein is secreted
from the
cell and then attaches itself to GluR4 on the
kidney cancer
cell membrane.
From left: A decellularization process removes cells from discarded kidneys, such as those that aren't suitable for transpla
From left: A decellularization process removes
cells from discarded kidneys, such as those that aren't suitable for transpla
from discarded
kidneys, such as those that aren't suitable for transplants.
From left: A
kidney scaffold awaits the addition of
kidney cells.
But he also has a team working on the model that occurred to him on the beach: Harvest and grow some healthy
cells from a patient's damaged
kidneys.
«Investigators create complex
kidney structures
from human stem
cells derived
from adults: New technique offers model for studying disease, progress toward
cell therapy.»
With no
cells from the pig, the recipient's body should accept this new section of
kidney.
Liver
cells and
kidney cells are genetically identical apart
from their epigenetic marks.
After running the simulations at IU Bloomington, Bacallao confirmed the cyst growth predictions seen in the virtual cysts in experiments using real human
cells cultivated
from polycystic
kidneys from patients at the IU School of Medicine.
The team found that obese people with
kidney cancer had a 53 % lower risk of dying
from renal -
cell carcinoma than patients who were normal weight2.
They found that reducing the level of VEGF - A in mouse
kidney cells caused
kidney failure very similar to that seen in women suffering
from preeclampsia.
Ildstad and her colleagues report that five of eight people who underwent the treatment were able to stop all immunosuppressive therapy within a year after their
kidney and stem -
cell transplants, four of which came
from unrelated donors.
The researchers developed two such signatures
from cells found in the urine that could differentiate, in a two - step approach, the common causes of acute
kidney dysfunction with high accuracy.
The human
kidney cell involved survived the experience, and though we are a long way
from the laser eyes of Cyclops
from the X-Men franchise, the achievement suggests that «living lasers» might be created inside live animals.
Derived mostly
from human embryonic
kidney 293T (HEK293T) and HeLa
cell lines, EdiGene Knockout (KO) Cell Lysates have been optimized through the use of genome editing technology and validated at the genomic level through PCR and Sanger - sequencing techniques to ensure the accuracy and knockout of the target g
cell lines, EdiGene Knockout (KO)
Cell Lysates have been optimized through the use of genome editing technology and validated at the genomic level through PCR and Sanger - sequencing techniques to ensure the accuracy and knockout of the target g
Cell Lysates have been optimized through the use of genome editing technology and validated at the genomic level through PCR and Sanger - sequencing techniques to ensure the accuracy and knockout of the target gene.
In this cross section of a
kidney from a young FAN1 knockout mouse,
cell nuclei are stained purple.
It found that patients who received a liver and
kidney at the same time, or a liver alone, had fewer of the
cells that leap into action to defend the body
from an invader — known as killer
cells or T
cells — , compared with people who had a
kidney transplant alone.
«Also, by using iPS
cells from patients, development of new drugs and clarification of the causes of
kidney disease are also expected.»
«We isolated
kidney progenitor
cells from mice and searched for the most favorable culture conditions,» said Assistant Professor Shunsuke Tanigawa of Kumamoto University.
Before toying with worms, the S.U.N.Y. Buffalo team tried out their technique on cultures of human embryonic
kidney cells and neurons
from a rat hippocampus, a part of the brain integral to memory.
Researchers led by Van Allen and Choueiri sought an explanation for why some patients with a form of metastatic
kidney cancer called clear
cell renal
cell cancer (ccRCC) gain clinical benefit — sometimes durable —
from treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the PD - 1 checkpoint, while other patients don't.
The Saudi scientists said they had isolated a virus
from the patient as well as
from one of the camels, grown both samples in monkey
kidney cells, and sequenced their genomes, which turned out to be 100 % identical.
At the end of 2013, they reported the successful creation of an in vitro three - dimensional
kidney structure
from human iPS
cells.
Further testing of this culture method on
kidney progenitor
cells derived
from human iPS
cells resulted in four times the total amount of
cells over 8 days.
Glomeruli filter the blood to make urine, and both the glomeruli and the tubules are generated
from kidney progenitor
cells during fetal life.
They could take a stem
cell from a person and engineer it to go down a particular path and differentiate into a liver or a
kidney or something like that.
«Massive single -
cell survey of
kidney cell types reveals new paths to disease: Study of over 57,000
cells from mouse
kidneys help identify human renal disorders.»
Reporting in Science, a team led by researchers
from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School describes a new approach to prevent death in these essential
kidney cells.
The matrix helps prevent the immune system
from rejecting the
kidney cells.
Because donated immune
cells recognise the foreign tissue
from the transplanted
kidney, the thymus gets rid of the recipient's own T -
cells that could otherwise attack the
kidney.
About 10 days after the transplant, Strober injects the patient with millions of white blood
cells extracted
from the
kidney donor.
We then coax a
cell line made
from an embryonic
kidney into taking up the Trojan horse plasmid.
As part of a clinical trial conducted at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Ildstad and colleagues extracted bone marrow - producing
cells from kidney donors and then removed
cells likely to cause GVHD while expanding the number of «facilitating
cells» that make an organ recipient's system more receptive.
To create the repository, the researchers are taking blood
cells from Gulf War veterans and «reprogramming» them into their «pluripotent» state, which can then be transformed into any type of
cell,
from a
kidney to a neuron.
The answer was yes: They found
cells with markers
from all three major body
cell types, called germ layers: ectoderm (such as nerve
cells), mesoderm (muscle and blood vessel
cells), and endoderm (
kidney cells).
Each patient then received a
kidney from a genetically mismatched relative or unrelated donor; the concoction of donor
cells processed by Ildstad's team was given a day later.