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Understanding the Development and Repair of the Kidney

Source: www.hsci.harvard.edu
Topic: Kidney injury
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Sort Desciption: kidney has a remarkable ability to survive injury and restore its function. ... injury in an adult kidney and vice versa? Regeneration and Response to Kidney ...

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Identifying and understanding the cellular processes underlying development and repair of the mammalian kidney may enable more effective, targeted therapies for acute and chronic kidney diseases in humans. Given that thousands of people each year are affected, that their quality of life is dramatically diminished and that the related cost to Americas health-care system runs in many billions of dollars, the potential rewards are significant. In many organ systems, especially those with particularly high cellular turnover such as blood, skin and gut, stem cells are the basic currency of organ repair. What of the kidney?

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