Amniotic Fluid Derived Stem Cells with a Renal Progenitor Phenotype Inhibit Interstitial Fibrosis in Renal Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Rats

• Marina Gabriela Monteiro Carvalho Mori da Cunha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Gabriela Monteiro Carvalho Mori da Cunha, Silvia Zia

  Affiliations Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Fetal therapy group, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Experimental Veterinary Surgery Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

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• Silvia Zia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Gabriela Monteiro Carvalho Mori da Cunha, Silvia Zia

  Affiliation Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Fetal therapy group, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Fanny Oliveira Arcolino,

  Affiliation Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Laboratory of Pediatric Nephrology, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Marianne Sylvia Carlon,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Diego Vilibaldo Beckmann,

  Affiliation Experimental Veterinary Surgery Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

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• Ney Luis Pippi,

  Affiliation Experimental Veterinary Surgery Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

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• Dominguita Luhers Graça,

  Affiliation Experimental Veterinary Surgery Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

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• Elena Levtchenko,

  Affiliations Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Laboratory of Pediatric Nephrology, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jan Deprest,

  Affiliations Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Fetal therapy group, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jaan Toelen

  * E-mail: jaan.toelen@uzleuven.be

  Affiliations Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ System Cluster, Fetal therapy group, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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