The mesangial cell—the glomerular stromal cell

S Avraham, B Korin, JJ Chung, L Oxburgh… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Mesangial cells are stromal cells that are important for kidney glomerular homeostasis and
the glomerular response to injury. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that …

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 …

Single cell regulatory landscape of the mouse kidney highlights cellular differentiation programs and disease targets

Z Miao, MS Balzer, Z Ma, H Liu, J Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Determining the epigenetic program that generates unique cell types in the kidney is critical
for understanding cell-type heterogeneity during tissue homeostasis and injury response …

A scalable organoid model of human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease for disease mechanism and drug discovery

T Tran, CJ Song, T Nguyen, SY Cheng, JA McMahon… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem-cell-derived organoids are models for human development and
disease. We report a modified human kidney organoid system that generates thousands of …

Higher-order kidney organogenesis from pluripotent stem cells

A Taguchi, R Nishinakamura - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Organogenesis generates higher-order structures containing functional subunits, connective
components, and progenitor niches. Despite recent advances in organoid-based modeling …

Generation of kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

M Takasato, PX Er, HS Chiu, MH Little - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
The human kidney develops from four progenitor populations—nephron progenitors,
ureteric epithelial progenitors, renal interstitial progenitors and endothelial progenitors …

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 …

LATS-YAP/TAZ controls lineage specification by regulating TGFβ signaling and Hnf4α expression during liver development

DH Lee, JO Park, TS Kim, SK Kim, T Kim, M Kim… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway regulates the self-renewal and differentiation of various adult stem cells,
but its role in cell fate determination and differentiation during liver development remains …

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 …

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 …