Stem cell study holds out promise for kidney disease

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Stem Cell Study Holds out Promise for Kidney
Disease
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Stem Cell Research

• Days of clinical research empower scientists to
  discover novel methods using stem cells to
  develop more humanlike tiny kidneys. This is
  something, which is not as new to us as we had
  enough of such research-based organ development
  for kidney impairments earlier as well.
• More the number of new methods to investigate
  etiologies of kidney disorders are developed,
  more prospective and fruitful results we can
  expect.

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Why Stem-Cell Based Research Is So Promising?

• As far as tissue engineering is concerned, they
  turn out to be a promising therapeutic approach
  to facilitate kidney replacement and regeneration
  therapies. So, developing the method for any
  kidney tissues depends largely on comprehensive
  insights into kidney formations, which can
  contribute to mimic the process in cell culture
  in the lab.
• With a better data through stem cell research, it
  is likely to receive more precise and accurate
  information about the kidneys, enabling
  researchers to develop a better functional
  kidney.

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Why Stem-Cell Based Research Is So Promising?

• This is another feat of stem cells, which raises
  a prospective result for us to avoid renal
  failure and its debilitating consequences. Kidney
  disorder or failure is a growing concern for
  American adults as it affects about 30 million
  citizens among them or about 15 of the total
  population.
• The number of affected patients is higher than
  those patients suffering from breast cancer and
  prostate cancer combined.

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Why Stem-Cell Based Research Is So Promising?

• Since, the mini kidney regeneration is a hope for
  us to replace damaged kidney, there is another
  study, proving to be a prospective method to
  repair damaged kidneys too.

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Kidney Repair Requisite

• Our kidneys are a pair of important organs that
  helps discharge waste products from the bodies,
  while filtering and cleaning our blood to
  detoxify it of all the waste products. Unlike
  skin, kidneys have very little capacity to heal
  by themselves to repair its scar or damage.
• On failure to exert this key function, the
  damaged kidneys in the patients worsen their
  conditions, pushing them to suffer from end stage
  kidney disease.

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Kidney Repair Requisite

•  The condition leaves the patients with no
  options, except dialysis and kidney transplant.
• But, a novel therapy is a possibility that may
  help to repair damaged kidneys and help patients
  avoid these costly treatment options like
  dialysis and organ transplant.

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Hope for the Kidney Patients

• Kidneys have some cells with the characterization
  of a regenerative capacity. This fact has been
  brought to the light by scientists in Italy.
  These cells with transcription factors CD133 are
  a type of molecules, which have the capacity to
  sustain renal injuries and regenerate various
  kidney cells.
• Scientists at the University of Torino wanted to
  work on these cells and wanted to gauge how these
  molecules worked to further the process of tissue
  repair in damaged kidneys.

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The Process of the Research

• The scientists used a chemotherapy drug
  cisplatin, used for the treatment of cancers. In
  addition, the drug is supposed to affect the
  functions of kidneys too in at least one third of
  the patients.
• It was found that CD133 played a key role in
  helping recover damaged kidneys in the patients,
  while preventing the progenitor cells of kidneys
  from aging. This is important to help repair
  damaged kidneys in the future.

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The Process of the Research

• This is helpful for the further research of
  kidney disease, so that with infusions of CD133
  molecules, it will be possible to help patients
  with damaged kidney repair one day.
• Although the process is effective for the
  treatment of last stage of kidney ailments, it is
  hopeful that the process can help people with an
  early stage of disease also and remove the
  complications completely.

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References

• https//www.cordlifeindia.com/blog/stem-cell-study
  -holds-promise-kidney-disease/
• https//blog.cirm.ca.gov/2018/04/12/stem-cell-stud
  y-holds-out-promise-for-kidney-disease/
• https//news.usc.edu/136567/usc-research-helps-ste
  m-cell-experts-develop-kidney-treatments-reduce-di
  alysis/