Human kidney organoids: progress and remaining challenges

R Nishinakamura - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2019 - nature.com
Kidney organoids are regarded as important tools with which to study the development of
the normal and diseased human kidney. Since the first reports of human pluripotent stem …

Emerging roles of Wnt ligands in human colorectal cancer

X Nie, H Liu, L Liu, YD Wang, WD Chen - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and
constitutive activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is universal in most CRC cases. Wnt …

Cell transcriptomic atlas of the non-human primate Macaca fascicularis

L Han, X Wei, C Liu, G Volpe, Z Zhuang, X Zou, Z Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Studying tissue composition and function in non-human primates (NHPs) is crucial to
understand the nature of our own species. Here we present a large-scale cell transcriptomic …

Development of the mammalian kidney

AP McMahon - Current topics in developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The basic unit of kidney function is the nephron. In the mouse, around 14,000 nephrons form
in a 10-day period extending into early neonatal life, while the human fetus forms the adult …

Mammalian kidney development: principles, progress, and projections

MH Little, AP McMahon - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The mammalian kidney is a vital organ with considerable cellular complexity and functional
diversity. Kidney development is notable for requiring distinct but coincident tubulogenic …

Conserved and divergent features of mesenchymal progenitor cell types within the cortical nephrogenic niche of the human and mouse kidney

NO Lindström, J Guo, AD Kim, T Tran… - Journal of the …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Cellular interactions among nephron, interstitial, and collecting duct progenitors drive
mammalian kidney development. In mice, Six2+ nephron progenitor cells (NPCs) and …

Identification of a multipotent self-renewing stromal progenitor population during mammalian kidney organogenesis

A Kobayashi, JW Mugford, AM Krautzberger, N Naiman… - Stem cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
The mammalian kidney is a complex organ consisting of multiple cell types. We previously
showed that the Six2-expressing cap mesenchyme is a multipotent self-renewing progenitor …

FGF9 and FGF20 maintain the stemness of nephron progenitors in mice and man

H Barak, SH Huh, S Chen, C Jeanpierre, J Martinovic… - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
The identity of niche signals necessary to maintain embryonic nephron progenitors is
unclear. Here we provide evidence that Fgf20 and Fgf9, expressed in the niche, and Fgf9 …

Kidney organoids: accurate models or fortunate accidents

MH Little, AN Combes - Genes & Development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
There are now many reports of human kidney organoids generated via the directed
differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) based on an existing understanding of …

Single cell analysis of the developing mouse kidney provides deeper insight into marker gene expression and ligand-receptor crosstalk

AN Combes, B Phipson, KT Lawlor, A Dorison… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Recent advances in the generation of kidney organoids and the culture of primary nephron
progenitors from mouse and human have been based on knowledge of the molecular basis …