Kidney-on-a-chip technology for drug-induced nephrotoxicity screening

MJ Wilmer, CP Ng, HL Lanz, P Vulto, L Suter-Dick… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
Improved model systems to predict drug efficacy, interactions, and drug-induced kidney
injury (DIKI) are crucially needed in drug development. Organ-on-a-chip technology is a …

Solid organ bioprinting: strategies to achieve organ function

AM Jorgensen, JJ Yoo, A Atala - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The field of tissue engineering has advanced over the past decade, but the largest impact on
human health should be achieved with the transition of engineered solid organs to the clinic …

Nephron organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells model kidney development and injury

R Morizane, AQ Lam, BS Freedman, S Kishi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Kidney cells and tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) may enable
organ regeneration, disease modeling and drug screening. We report an efficient …

Redefining the in vivo origin of metanephric nephron progenitors enables generation of complex kidney structures from pluripotent stem cells

A Taguchi, Y Kaku, T Ohmori, S Sharmin, M Ogawa… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Summary Recapitulating three-dimensional (3D) structures of complex organs, such as the
kidney, from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) is a major challenge. Here, we define the …

Fine tuning the extracellular environment accelerates the derivation of kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

E Garreta, P Prado, C Tarantino, R Oria, L Fanlo… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The generation of organoids is one of the biggest scientific advances in regenerative
medicine. Here, by lengthening the time that human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) were …

Directing human embryonic stem cell differentiation towards a renal lineage generates a self-organizing kidney

M Takasato, PX Er, M Becroft, JM Vanslambrouck… - Nature cell …, 2014 - nature.com
With the prevalence of end-stage renal disease rising 8% per annum globally, there is an
urgent need for renal regenerative strategies. The kidney is a mesodermal organ that …

Directed differentiation of human pluripotent cells to ureteric bud kidney progenitor-like cells

Y Xia, E Nivet, I Sancho-Martinez, T Gallegos… - Nature cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Diseases affecting the kidney constitute a major health issue worldwide. Their incidence and
poor prognosis affirm the urgent need for the development of new therapeutic strategies …

Rapid and efficient differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into intermediate mesoderm that forms tubules expressing kidney proximal tubular markers

AQ Lam, BS Freedman, R Morizane… - Journal of the …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can generate a diversity of cell types, but few
methods have been developed to derive cells of the kidney lineage. Here, we report a highly …

Generation of nephron progenitor cells and kidney organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

R Morizane, JV Bonventre - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
A variety of protocols have been developed that demonstrate the capability to differentiate
human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into kidney structures. Our goal was to develop a high …

Generation of functioning nephrons by implanting human pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney progenitors

I Bantounas, P Ranjzad, F Tengku, E Silajdžić… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) hold great promise for understanding kidney
development and disease. We reproducibly differentiated three genetically distinct wild-type …