GROWING RENAL TUBULE CELLS AND EX VIVO RENAL TUBULE TISSUE SYSTEM

摘要

Treating renal failure by passing blood from a patient through a blood filtering device and passing the filtrate obtained through a tubule processing device. Also disclosed is a method of growing tubule cells ex vivo by culturing adult kidney cells in a three dimensional collagen gel in the presence of retinoic acid and epidermal growth factor to achieve tubulogenesis, and the ex vivo renal tubule tissue system obtained therefrom.