Excretion is an essential process of an organism's removal of the waste products of
metabolism to maintain a constant chemical composition of the body fluids despite changes …

Renal disease is a major worldwide public health problem that affects one in ten people.
Renal failure is caused by the irreversible loss of the structural and functional units of kidney …

US8658152B2 - Regeneration and repair of neural tissue using postpartum-derived cells -
Google Patents US8658152B2 - Regeneration and repair of neural tissue using postpartum-derived …

The increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the absence of new treatment
modalities has become a strong driver for innovation in nephrology. An increasing …

Adult stem cells exist in many organs and play a critical role in normal cell turnover and the
response to injury. The existence of adult stem cells in the mammalian kidney remains …

The shortage of organs for kidney transplantation has created the need to develop new
strategies to restore renal structure and function. Given our recent finding that the lymph …

Background Bone marrow (BM) stem cells have been reported to contribute to tissue repair
after kidney injury model. However, there is no direct evidence so far that BM cells can trans …

Adult kidney stem cells are known to have important roles in renal regeneration after acute
kidney injury. Although trophic factors from tissue stem cells have been reported to promote …

Background Critically ill patients in intensive care face hazardous conditions. Among these,
acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequently seen as a result of sepsis. Early diagnosis of kidney …

The existence of adult renal stem cells has long been suspected because the kidney is
capable of regeneration in response to injury, such as acute tubular necrosis (ATN), but their …