Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Generation of patterned kidney organoids that recapitulate the adult kidney collecting duct system from expandable ureteric bud progenitors

  • Zipeng Zeng,
  • Biao Huang,
  • Riana K. Parvez,
  • Yidan Li,
  • Jyunhao Chen,
  • Ariel C. Vonk,
  • Matthew E. Thornton,
  • Tadrushi Patel,
  • Elisabeth A. Rutledge,
  • Albert D. Kim,
  • Jingying Yu,
  • Brendan H. Grubbs,
  • Jill A. McMahon,
  • Nuria M. Pastor-Soler,
  • Kenneth R. Hallows,
  • Andrew P. McMahon,
  • Zhongwei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23911-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here, the authors model the collecting duct system in kidneys by taking ureteric bud (UB) progenitor cells from both mouse and human primary tissues, as well as from hESC and hiPSC to generate organoids, which can model congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.