Kidney Regeneration: Lessons from Development

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-79

  Chiba, Takuto ^a,b   Hukriede, Neil ^c   de Caestecker, Mark P ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Endothelial cells; Fibroblasts; Macrophages; Tissue repair; Tubular epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983754669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-015-0069-z     Document Type: Review

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