Long-term culture of nephron progenitor cells ex vivo

Aaron C. Brown, Ashwani K. Gupta, Leif Oxburgh

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Abstract

Nephrons differentiate from the cap mesenchyme of the fetal kidney. Nephron progenitor cells that populate the cap mesenchyme efficiently balance self-renewal and epithelial differentiation to enable repeated rounds of nephron formation during development. Here we describe a method to isolate and propagate these cells from the embryonic mouse kidney. Using this method, nephron progenitor cells from a single litter of mice can be propagated to hundreds of millions of cells that express appropriate markers of the undifferentiated state and retain epithelial differentiation capacity in vitro.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
PublisherHumana Press Inc.
Pages63-75
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1926

Keywords

  • Kidney
  • Organogenesis
  • Primary cell culture
  • Stem cells

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

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