Therapeutic use of human renal progenitor cells for kidney regeneration

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 695-706

  Bussolati, Benedetta ^a   Camussi, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETAL STEM CELL; FETUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL STEM CELL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL CULTURE; TISSUE REGENERATION; URINE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; REGENERATION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84948086347     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2015.126     Document Type: Review

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