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Does injection of metanephric mesenchymal cells improve renal function in rats?
Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia - 1 May 2011
Jiao Yu-qing, Yi Zhu-wen, He Xiao-jie, Liu Xi-hong, He Qing-nan, Huang Dan-lin
Abstract excerpt
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a massive global health-care problem. Cell therapy offers a potential treatment for CKD. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the administration of a population of stem cells could be used to treat adriamycin (ADR)-induced glomerulopathy in rats, a form of CKD. We intravenously transplanted metanephric mesenchymal cells (MMCs) into rats treated with ADR. We also induced...
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