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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3736701 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hao H Gomez Jose A JA Klein Sabine S Zhang Zhiping Z Seidler Barbara B Yang Yanqiang Y Schmeckpeper Jeffrey J Zhang Lunan L Muramoto Garrett G GG Chute John J Pratt Richard E RE Saur Dieter D Mirotsou Maria M Dzau Victor J VJ
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20130606 8
The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) regulates BP and salt-volume homeostasis. Juxtaglomerular (JG) cells synthesize and release renin, which is the first and rate-limiting step in the RAAS. Intense pathologic stresses cause a dramatic increase in the number of renin-producing cells in the kidney, termed JG cell recruitment, but how this occurs is not fully understood. Here, we isolated renal CD44(+) mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-like cells and found that they differentiated into JG-lik ...[more]