Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Generation of the organotypic kidney structure by integrating pluripotent stem cell-derived renal stroma

  • Shunsuke Tanigawa,
  • Etsuko Tanaka,
  • Koichiro Miike,
  • Tomoko Ohmori,
  • Daisuke Inoue,
  • Chen-Leng Cai,
  • Atsuhiro Taguchi,
  • Akio Kobayashi,
  • Ryuichi Nishinakamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28226-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Organs consist of parenchyma and stroma. Nishinakamura and colleagues induce renal stromal progenitors from mouse pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), and generate completely PSC-derived organoids that reproduce complex kidney structure.