Sentences with phrase «nephron progenitor»
Previous attempts to maintain cultures of the so - called nephron progenitor cells often failed, as the cells died or gradually lost their developmental potential rather than staying in a more medically useful precursor state.
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This is a reconstitution of glomeruli by propagated nephron progenitors derived from human iPS cells.
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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.
Next, the researchers would like to investigate how to culture the other types of progenitor cells that are required for a full kidney, in addition to the nephrons formed by NPCs.
A paper on the work, «Prostaglandin signaling regulates nephron segment patterning of renal progenitors during zebrafish kidney development,» was published in the journal eLife this week.