Modeling the Glomerular Filtration Barrier: Are You Kidney-ing Me?

Publication date: 6 July 2017
Source:Cell Stem Cell, Volume 21, Issue 1
Author(s): Paola Romagnani, Laura Lasagni
Podocyte depletion drives kidney disease and kidney failure progression, but podocyte complexity at the glomerular filtration barrier is difficult to model in vitro. In Nature Biomedical Engineering, Musah et al. (2017) developed a multifluidic device with iPS-derived podocytes mimicking a functional glomerular filtration barrier that elevates standards for modeling glomerular diseases.

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Podocyte depletion drives kidney disease and kidney failure progression, but podocyte complexity at the glomerular filtration barrier is difficult to model in vitro. In Nature Biomedical Engineering, Musah et al. (2017) developed a multifluidic device with iPS-derived podocytes mimicking a functional glomerular filtration barrier that elevates standards for modeling glomerular diseases.


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