Collective epithelial migration drives kidney repair after acute injury.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and significant medical problem. Despite the kidney's remarkable regenerative capacity, the mortality rate for the AKI patients is high. Thus, there remains a need to better understand the cellular mechanisms of nephron repair in order to develop new strate...

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Main Authors: Aurélien Palmyre, Jeongeun Lee, Gennadiy Ryklin, Troy Camarata, Martin K Selig, Anne-Laure Duchemin, Paul Nowak, M Amin Arnaout, Iain A Drummond, Aleksandr Vasilyev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4092191?pdf=render