The polycomb proteins EZH1 and EZH2 co-regulate chromatin accessibility and nephron progenitor cell lifespan in mice

H Liu, S Hilliard, E Kelly, CH Chen, Z Saifudeen… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
… ) in E14.5 mouse NPCs and is thought to represent a transitional state between nephron
progenitor and early nascent nephrons. Lastly, the NPC7 cluster represents nephron progenitor-…

Omics profiling identifies the regulatory functions of the MAPK/ERK pathway in nephron progenitor metabolism

HN Kwon, K Kurtzeborn, V Iaroshenko, X Jin… - …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
… regulation of nephron progenitors contribute to only a fraction of reduced nephron mass …
The importance of MAPK/ERK activation in nephron progenitor maintenance has been …

Impact of gestational low-protein intake on embryonic kidney microRNA expression and in nephron progenitor cells of the male fetus

LB Sene, WR Scarano, A Zapparoli, JAR Gontijo… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… This delicate balance between nephron progenitor renewal and differentiation is essential
for kidney development, because failure to achieve adequate numbers of nephrons is a risk …

Recreating, expanding and using nephron progenitor populations

MH Little, KT Lawlor - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
… iPSC)-derived nephron progenitors and in our understanding of how nephrons form in a kidney
… clues as to how we might use iPSC-derived cells to regenerate a human nephron in vivo. …

Modeling Kidney Development, Disease, and Plasticity with Clonal Expandable Nephron Progenitor Cells and Nephron Organoids: SA-PO342

B Huang, Z Zeng, H Li, C Zhang, R Parvez… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
… ,” aiming to regenerate human nephrons using porcine fetal kidneys as a scaffold. Crucial
to this approach is the replacement of porcine nephron progenitor cells (NPCs) with human …

Evidence for Post-Branching Nephrogenesis and Novel Ureteric Bud/Nephron Progenitor Interaction in the Postnatal Rabbit: FR-PO392

MP Schuh, S Yarlagadda, L Alkhudairy… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
nephrons forming in the third trimester. Infants born before 30 weeks undergo nephrogenesis
for no more than 40 days postnatally, resulting in low nephron … Six1 (nephron progenitors, …

Long-term viable chimeric nephrons generated from progenitor cells are a reliable model in cisplatin-induced toxicity

K Matsui, S Yamanaka, S Chen, N Matsumoto… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
… chimeric nephrons exhibit similar maturation to the host nephrons, … human nephron progenitor
cells differentiate into nephrons … approach for in vivo nephron generation, with potential …

Mouse embryonic stem cell-derived ureteric bud progenitors induce nephrogenesis

Z Tan, A Rak-Raszewska, I Skovorodkin, SJ Vainio - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of nephron progenitor population from PSCs. Until now, differentiation of PSCs into ureteric
bud (UB) progenitor … We and several other groups reported induction of nephron progenitors, …

Six1 and Six2 of the sine oculis homeobox subfamily are not functionally interchangeable in mouse nephron formation

J Xu, J Li, A Ramakrishnan, H Yan, L Shen… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… are expressed in nephron progenitors of human … nephron progenitors throughout development.
This non-overlapping expression between Six1 and Six2 in mouse nephron progenitors

Nephron progenitors rhythmically alternate between renewal and differentiation in synchrony with kidney branching morphogenesis.

SN Davis, SH Grindel, JM Viola, GY Liu… - Biorxiv: the Preprint …, 2023 - europepmc.org
… Here we find that the avalanche-like commitment of nephron progenitors coincides with …
pauses 29 in which nephron progenitors renew. This may act to match nephron formation rate to …