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Generation of kidney from pluripotent stem cells via blastocyst complementation.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2012
Usui Jo-ichi, Kobayashi Toshihiro, Yamaguchi Tomoyuki, Knisely A S, Nishinakamura Ryuichi, Nakauchi Hiromitsu
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Because a shortage of donor organs has been a major obstacle to the expansion of organ transplantation programs, the generation of transplantable organs is among the ultimate goals of regenerative medicine. However, the complex cellular interactions among and within tissues that are required for organogenesis are difficult to recapitulate in vitro. As an alternative, we used blastocyst complementation to generate...
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