Regeneration of specialized cells offers hope for treating chronic kidney disease
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Damage to podocytes -- a specialized type of epithelial cell in the kidney -- occurs in more than 90 percent of all chronic kidney disease. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered an unexpected pathway that reveals for the first time how these cells may regenerate and renew themselves during normal kidney function.