Article
Stem Cell Therapies Benefit Alport Syndrome
15 Oct 2009
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Alport syndrome progressively lose renal function as a result of defective type IV collagen in their glomerular basement membrane. In mice lacking the alpha3 chain of type IV collagen (Col4A3 knockout mice), a model for Alport syndrome, transplantation of wild-type bone marrow repairs the renal disease. It is unknown whether cell-based therapies that do not require transplantation have similar...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
