An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney

BB Lake, R Menon, S Winfree, Q Hu, R Melo Ferreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding kidney disease relies on defining the complexity of cell types and states, their
associated molecular profiles and interactions within tissue neighbourhoods. Here we …

Clonal selection parallels between normal and cancer tissues

A Salavaty, E Azadian, SH Naik, PD Currie - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Clonal selection and drift drive both normal tissue and cancer development. However, the
biological mechanisms and environmental conditions underpinning these processes remain …

A high-definition spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mammalian kidney development

S Jiang, H Yu, T Zhao, Y Lu, X Li, L Gao, J Mi, W **a… - The Innovation, 2025 - cell.com
The structural composition of organs undergoes significant transformations during
organogenesis, laying the foundation for their eventual functional architecture. In contrast …

OCT4 induces long-lived dedifferentiated kidney progenitors poised to redifferentiate in 3D kidney spheroids

D Omer, OC Zontag, Y Gnatek… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2023 - cell.com
Upscaling of kidney epithelial cells is crucial for renal regenerative medicine. Nonetheless,
the adult kidney lacks a distinct stem cell hierarchy, limiting the ability to long-term propagate …

[HTML][HTML] Single-Cell Profiling of Tubular Epithelial Cells in Adaptive State in the Urine Sediment of Patients With Early and Advanced Diabetic Kidney Disease

D Ma, D Wang, J Yu, N Huang, N Luo, Y Yang… - Kidney International …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Tubular epithelial cells (TECs) under adaptive state (aTECs) have been
frequently reported in the injured kidney closely associated with disease progression …

[PDF][PDF] Stem Cells and Kidney Regeneration

K Osafune, O Pleniceanu, B Dekel - Pediatric Nephrology, 2022 - Springer
Abstracts Because of the few effective treatments for many chronic kidney diseases,
increasing consideration has been given to new regenerative therapies using stem cells …

[HTML][HTML] Moving to a new dimension: 3D kidney cultures for kidney regeneration

M Namestnikov, B Dekel - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, it has become apparent that 3D cultures of kidney cells may help maintain
cells' heterogeneity and in vivo phenotypes crucial for disease modelling and drug discovery …

In vivo clonal analysis and the kidney: Implications to regenerative nephrology

O Pleniceanu, B Dekel - Regenerative Nephrology, 2022 - Elsevier
During the past decades, our understanding of the way the kidney develops, functions, and
responds to damage has grown exponentially. This has resulted from the combined use of …