nephrogenesis

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noun

development of the kidney

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Meanings

nounnephrogenesis (uncountable)
  1. uncountabledevelopment of the kidney

    During nephrogenesis, after the initial contact of the ureteric bud with the metanephric mesenchyme, the condensed mesenchyme generates a population of stem and progenitor cells, which are found at the periphery of the nephrogenic zone in the developing kidney.

    2015 August 22, “Amniotic Fluid Derived Stem Cells with a Renal Progenitor Phenotype Inhibit Interstitial Fibrosis in Renal Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From nephro- + -genesis.

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