How long does it take for kidney cells to repair itself?
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It has long been thought that kidney cells didn’t reproduce much once the organ was fully formed. The new research shows that the kidneys are regenerating and repairing themselves throughout life.
“This research tells us that the kidney is in no way a static organ,” said Benjamin Dekel, MD, PhD, a senior author of the paper and associate professor of pediatrics at Sackler, as well as head of the Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel. “The kidney, incredibly, rejuvenates itself and continues to generate specialized kidney cells all the time.”
It takes about 1-2 years to kidney cells for repairing themselves.
There are various reasons because of which, sometimes kidneys's get failed. And, we have only 2 option. First is "Kidney Transplantation" and second is dialysis. This methods are actually helping the patients at all. But, if we think about the poor people, then they can't afford this. On a new research, it had been found that, Sometime the kidney's get repaired itself.
Professor Joseph Bonventre said that, Due to changes in the generations, kidney's have now achieved the special ability of fixing themselves. The main reason of getting damaged to the kidney is it's Nephron. Nephron in a very important part of kidney and about 10 Lakh nephrons are present in each of the kidney.
This nephron consists of Glomerulus, Bownmas's Capsule, Tubular part like structure etc. When this parts of Nephron got failed, then the kidney is also failed. So, Kidney's have now special ability to restore the kidney to the original themselves. This can help to lot of patients and people who don't want to do Dialysis or transplantation.