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ArticleCell reports2020

Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Organoids with Improved Collecting Duct Maturation and Injury Modeling.

Kohei Uchimura, Haojia Wu, Yasuhiro Yoshimura, Benjamin D Humphreys

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Article in Cell reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kohei UchimuraDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Haojia WuDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Yasuhiro YoshimuraDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Benjamin D HumphreysDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: humphreysbd@wustl.edu.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Understanding Myofibroblast Progenitor Fate and Function in Renal FibrosisR01DK103740 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BENJAMIN D. HUMPHREYS · 2015 to 2026
$3.9M
Single-cell analysis to promote kidney repairUC2DK126024 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN D., KIM, JUNHYONG · 2020 to 2024
$3.7M
Adult Progenitors in Kidney TubulointerstitiumUH3DK107374 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN D. · 2017 to 2019
$948k
Adult Progenitors in Kidney TubulointerstitiumUH2DK107374 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN D. · 2015 to 2016
$626k
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK103740NIDDK NIH HHS UC2 DK126024NIDDK NIH HHS UH2 DK107374NIDDK NIH HHS UH3 DK107374
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maximizing the potential of human kidney organoids for drug testing and regenerative medicine and to model development and disease requires addressing cell immaturity, the lack of a mature collecting system, and off-target cell types. By independently generating two kidney progenitor cell populations-metanephric mesenchyme and ureteric bud (UB)-like cells-we could generate kidney organoids with a collecting system. We also identify the hormones aldosterone and arginine vasopressin (AVP) as critical to promote differentiation of collecting duct cell types including both principal cells (PCs) and intercalated cells (ICs). The resulting PCs express aquaporin-2 (AQP2) protein, which undergoes translocation to the apical membrane after vasopressin or forskolin stimulation. By single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), we demonstrate improved proximal tubule maturation and reduced off-target cell populations. We also show appropriate downregulation of progenitor cell types, improved modeling of tubular injury, the presence of urothelium (Uro), and the ability of Notch pathway modulation to regulate PC:IC ratios during organoid development.

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Cell DifferentiationHumansKidneyKidney TubulesOrganoidsPluripotent Stem Cellscollecting ductkidney organoidscRNA-seqstem cells

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PMID33326782
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