A strategy for generating kidney organoids: Recapitulating the development in human pluripotent stem cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 420, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 210-220

  Takasato, Minoru ^a,b   Little, Melissa H ^a,c  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM CELL; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEPHRON CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYOLOGY; KIDNEY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANOGENESIS; ORGANOIDS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PRIMITIVE STREAK;

EID: 84997497874     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.08.024     Document Type: Review

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