Basic research: Bioengineering the kidney microvasculature

Nature Reviews Nephrology 12, 124 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrneph.2015.218 Author: Ellen F. Carney Jonathan Himmelfarb and colleagues have developed a novel method to bioengineer functional kidney microvasculature from human kidney peritubular microvascular endothelial cells (HKMECs). They suggest that their 3D microphysiologic system could be used to investigate mechanisms of kidney disease and potential therapies.The researchers isolated HKMECs
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