Modeling renal progenitors – defining the niche

The Limbal Epithelial Progenitors in the Limbal Niche Environment

Limbal epithelial progenitors are stem cells located in limbal palisades of vogt. In this review, we present the audience with recent evidence that limbal epithelial progenitors may be a powerful stem cell resource for the cure of human corneal stem cell deficiency. Further understanding of their mechanism may shed lights to the future successful application of stem cell therapy not only to the...

Defining acute renal failure.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, July 12, 2011, 183(10) 1167 The initial management of episodes of acute renal failure is often done by clinicians who are not specialists in nephrology. Their efforts may be hampered by several factors, such as deficiencies in our understanding of acute renal failure, and consensus and anecdote forming the basis of much of our practice ...

The Role of Renal Progenitors in Renal Regeneration.

The adult kidney has a remarkable ability to survive injury and restore function despite a limited turnover of cells under physiologic conditions. This accounts both for the tubular and to a lesser extent for the glomerular compartment. It is an ongoing debate whether renal repair is carried out by self-duplication/de-differentiation of mature resident renal cells, or by specialized renal proge...

Using ecological niche modeling to determine avian richness hotspots

Understanding distributions of wildlife species is a key step towards identifying biodiversity hotspots and designing effective conservation strategies. In this paper, the spatial pattern of diversity of birds in Golestan Province, Iran was estimated. Ecological niche modeling was used to determine distributions of 144 bird species across the province using a maximum entropy algorithm. Richness...

Modeling Naturally Occurring Wildfires Across the US Using Niche Modeling