ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY HAVING FUNCTION OF METABOLIZING PROTEIN AND MEHTOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME

摘要

It is intended to provide an artificial kidney of intra−corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein. Namely, an artificial kidney of intra−corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein characterized by having as constituting members a sponge sheet having a hydrogel ontaining a growth factor, which promotes angiogenesis, injected thereinto and cells having megalin, which is an endocytosis receptor playing a major role in protein metabolism in proximal convoluted tubular cells, expressed on the surface; and a method of constructing an artificial kidney of intra−corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein characterized by using a sponge sheet having a hydrogen containing a growth factor, which promotes angiogenesis, injected thereinto and cells having megalin expressed on the surface.