Single-cell RNA-Seq analysis identified kidney progenitor cells from human urine

• 作者: Yujia Wang Yu Zhao Zixian Zhao Dandan Li Hao Nie Yufen Sun Xiaobei Feng Ting Zhang Yu Ma Jing Nie Guangyan Cai Xiangmei Chen Wei Zuo
• 来源期刊: 蛋白质与细胞
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（4）
• 所属期刊栏目: LETTERS
• 页码范围: 305-312
• 页数: 8页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dear Editor, Urine passes through the entire kidney and urinary tract system starting from the glomerulus and ending to the urethra.Cells in the kidney and urinary tract could be exfoliated from the epithelium into the urine, while leukocyte could infiltrate from the local tissue into the urine, which makes the urine a useful subject for clinical evaluation of relevant diseases.Among them, renal tubular cells and podocytes have been identified and 2D or 3D cultured from human urine specimens (Oliveira Arcolino et al., 2015;Schutgens et al.,2019).Particularly, kidney stem cell/progenitor cells were successfully recovered from pediatric patient urine and then cultured for kidney regenerative purpose by the Romagnani group.However, they also showed that such cells cannot be recovered from healthy individuals (Lazzeri et al., 2015).It remains unknown whether similar types of progenitor cells can be found in different individuals, either healthy or diseased.