Directed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature kidney podocytes and establishment of a Glomerulus Chip

Nature Protocols

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1662-1685

  Musah, Samira ^a,b   Dimitrakakis, Nikolaos ^a   Camacho, Diogo M ^a   Church, George M ^a,b   Ingber, Donald E ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; NANOZYME; PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PODOCYTE; PROCEDURES;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; PODOCYTES;

EID: 85049830424     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-018-0007-8     Document Type: Article

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