Advances of adult stem cell repair in renal injury / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Acute and chronic kidney injury are still lack of good treatments now.Although human renal histological structure is complex,it also can be regenerated by new renal tubular epithelial cells replacing injured cells.With the study deepening,it supports a new way for treating kidney injury with characteristics of proliferation and differentiation of stem cells.This article will discuss the features of some kinds of the adult stem cells in the kidney regeneration,and those functions in the pathological situation briefly.