Uncapping the Potential of Renal Stem Cells

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• 作者：Susan E. Quaggin
• 刊名：Cell Stem Cell
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：7 August 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：3
• 期：2
• 页码：123-124
• 全文大小：209 K

文摘

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, McMahon and coworkers (Kobayashi et al., 2008) characterize a subset of progenitor cells in the developing kidney. six2-expressing mesenchymal cells exhibit hallmark stem cell traits, in that they appear to self-renew and are clonally multipotent for a range of nephron epithelial cell types.