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Stem cells and kidney organogenesis.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Jan 2008
Yokoo Takashi, Fukui Akira, Matsumoto Kei, Okabe Masataka
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of tissue stem cells has launched the current boom in the field of regenerative research, which is tremendously exciting and holds enormous therapeutic potential. Despite such optimism, recent findings have tempered the potential for medical practice. Anatomically complicated organs, such as the kidney, have proved refractory to stem cell-based regenerative techniques. As the kidney has the capacity...
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