Zhongwei Li • USC Profiles (original) (raw)
- Spatially patterned kidney assembloids recapitulate progenitor self-assembly and enable high-fidelity in vivo disease modeling. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Oct 02; 32(10):1614-1633.e13. Huang B, Medina P, He J, Zeng Z, Kim S, Romo J, Koppitch K, Zhang CC, Gyarmati G, Park Y, Bohovyk R, N'Guetta PY, Guo J, Ma T, Schreiber ME, Xu C, Pham J, Parvez RK, Su J, Xia MW, Liu Z, Perin L, El-Nachef D, Murry CE, Kumar S, O'Brien L, Zimmerman KA, Ichida J, Lindström NO, Pastor-Soler NM, Hallows KR, Staruschenko A, Peti-Peterdi J, Jiang C, McMahon AP, Li Z. PMID: 40967224; PMCID: PMC12746344.
View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields: - Expansion of human pluripotent stem cell-induced nephron progenitor cells (iNPCs) and the generation of nephron organoids from iNPCs. Nat Protoc. 2026 03; 21(3):1167-1191. Huang B, Medina P, Ma T, Schreiber ME, Li Z. PMID: 40883437.
View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields: - Dmrt2 and Hmx2 direct intercalated cell diversity in the mammalian kidney through antagonistic and supporting regulatory processes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 May 20; 122(20):e2418471122. Parvez RK, Kim DK, Csipán RL, Guo J, Zeng Z, Zhang CC, Li Z, McMahon AP. PMID: 40354537; PMCID: PMC12107187.
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Translation:HumansAnimals - Human iPSC-derived nephron progenitor cells treat acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease in mouse models. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Apr 02; 17(792):eadt5553. Araoka T, Toyohara K, Ryosaka M, Inui C, Matsuura M, Ma C, Watahiki J, Li Z, Iwasaki M, Watanabe A, Yokokawa R, Tabata Y, Izpisua Belmonte JC, Osafune K. PMID: 40173262.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Long-term expandable mouse and human-induced nephron progenitor cells enable kidney organoid maturation and modeling of plasticity and disease. Cell Stem Cell. 2024 Jun 06; 31(6):921-939.e17. Huang B, Zeng Z, Kim S, Fausto CC, Koppitch K, Li H, Li Z, Chen X, Guo J, Zhang CC, Ma T, Medina P, Schreiber ME, Xia MW, Vonk AC, Xiang T, Patel T, Li Y, Parvez RK, Der B, Chen JH, Liu Z, Thornton ME, Grubbs BH, Diao Y, Dou Y, Gnedeva K, Ying Q, Pastor-Soler NM, Fei T, Hallows KR, Lindström NO, McMahon AP, Li Z. PMID: 38692273; PMCID: PMC11162329.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 21 Fields:
Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Building a kidney tree: Functional collecting duct from human pluripotent stem cells. Dev Cell. 2022 10 10; 57(19):2251-2253. Li Z, Lindström NO. PMID: 36220079.
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Translation:HumansCells - Approaches to kidney replacement therapies-opportunities and challenges. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022; 10:953408. Huang B, Zeng Z, Zhang CC, Schreiber ME, Li Z. PMID: 35982852; PMCID: PMC9380013.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 - Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein forms nuclear condensates and regulates alternative splicing. Nat Commun. 2022 06 25; 13(1):3646. Yuan B, Zhou X, Suzuki K, Ramos-Mandujano G, Wang M, Tehseen M, Cortés-Medina LV, Moresco JJ, Dunn S, Hernandez-Benitez R, Hishida T, Kim NY, Andijani MM, Bi C, Ku M, Takahashi Y, Xu J, Qiu J, Huang L, Benner C, Aizawa E, Qu J, Liu GH, Li Z, Yi F, Ghosheh Y, Shao C, Shokhirev M, Comoli P, Frassoni F, Yates JR, Fu XD, Esteban CR, Hamdan S, Li M, Izpisua Belmonte JC. PMID: 35752626; PMCID: PMC9233711.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 13 Fields:
Translation:HumansCells - Generation of patterned kidney organoids that recapitulate the adult kidney collecting duct system from expandable ureteric bud progenitors. Nat Commun. 2021 06 15; 12(1):3641. Zeng Z, Huang B, Parvez RK, Li Y, Chen J, Vonk AC, Thornton ME, Patel T, Rutledge EA, Kim AD, Yu J, Grubbs BH, McMahon JA, Pastor-Soler NM, Hallows KR, McMahon AP, Li Z. PMID: 34131121; PMCID: PMC8206157.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - A Modular Differentiation System Maps Multiple Human Kidney Lineages from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Rep. 2020 04 07; 31(1):107476. Tsujimoto H, Kasahara T, Sueta SI, Araoka T, Sakamoto S, Okada C, Mae SI, Nakajima T, Okamoto N, Taura D, Nasu M, Shimizu T, Ryosaka M, Li Z, Sone M, Ikeya M, Watanabe A, Osafune K. PMID: 32268094.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 48 Fields:
Translation:HumansCells - Epigenetic regulation of kidney progenitor cells. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2020 Jun; 9(6):655-660. Huang B, Liu Z, Vonk A, Zeng Z, Li Z. PMID: 32163228; PMCID: PMC7214665.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Kidney-in-a-lymph node: A novel organogenesis assay to model human renal development and test nephron progenitor cell fates. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2019 09; 13(9):1724-1731. Francipane MG, Han B, Oxburgh L, Sims-Lucas S, Li Z, Lagasse E. PMID: 31267702; PMCID: PMC7099580.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Gene Editing in 3D Cultured Nephron Progenitor Cell Lines. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1926:151-159. Li Z, Araoka T, Belmonte JCI. PMID: 30742270.
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Translation:AnimalsCells - Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells with In Vivo Embryonic and Extraembryonic Potency. Cell. 2017 04 06; 169(2):243-257.e25. Yang Y, Liu B, Xu J, Wang J, Wu J, Shi C, Xu Y, Dong J, Wang C, Lai W, Zhu J, Xiong L, Zhu D, Li X, Yang W, Yamauchi T, Sugawara A, Li Z, Sun F, Li X, Li C, He A, Du Y, Wang T, Zhao C, Li H, Chi X, Zhang H, Liu Y, Li C, Duo S, Yin M, Shen H, Belmonte JCI, Deng H. PMID: 28388409; PMCID: PMC5679268.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Activin/Smad2-induced Histone H3 Lys-27 Trimethylation (H3K27me3) Reduction Is Crucial to Initiate Mesendoderm Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. J Biol Chem. 2017 01 27; 292(4):1339-1350. Wang L, Xu X, Cao Y, Li Z, Cheng H, Zhu G, Duan F, Na J, Han JJ, Chen YG. PMID: 27965357; PMCID: PMC5270477.
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Translation:HumansCells - 3D Culture Supports Long-Term Expansion of Mouse and Human Nephrogenic Progenitors. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 10 06; 19(4):516-529. Li Z, Araoka T, Wu J, Liao HK, Li M, Lazo M, Zhou B, Sui Y, Wu MZ, Tamura I, Xia Y, Beyret E, Matsusaka T, Pastan I, Rodriguez Esteban C, Guillen I, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Izpisua Belmonte JC. PMID: 27570066; PMCID: PMC7832086.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Activin Regulates Self-renewal and Differentiation of Trophoblast Stem Cells by Down-regulating the X Chromosome Gene Bcor. J Biol Chem. 2015 Sep 04; 290(36):22019-29. Zhu G, Fei T, Li Z, Yan X, Chen YG. PMID: 26221038; PMCID: PMC4571955.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - An alternative pluripotent state confers interspecies chimaeric competency. Nature. 2015 May 21; 521(7552):316-21. Wu J, Okamura D, Li M, Suzuki K, Luo C, Ma L, He Y, Li Z, Benner C, Tamura I, Krause MN, Nery JR, Du T, Zhang Z, Hishida T, Takahashi Y, Aizawa E, Kim NY, Lajara J, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Esteban CR, Ross PJ, Saghatelian A, Ren B, Ecker JR, Izpisua Belmonte JC. PMID: 25945737; PMCID: PMC5278765.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - BMP induces cochlin expression to facilitate self-renewal and suppress neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. J Biol Chem. 2013 Mar 22; 288(12):8053-8060. Zhang J, Fei T, Li Z, Zhu G, Wang L, Chen YG. PMID: 23344953; PMCID: PMC3605624.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - TGF-β in Human Disease (Chapter 2). 2013. Li Z, Huylebroeck D, Chen YG. View Publication.
- Functions of BMP signaling in embryonic stem cell fate determination. Exp Cell Res. 2013 Jan 15; 319(2):113-9. Li Z, Chen YG. PMID: 23051821.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Fine-tune of intrinsic ERK activity by extrinsic BMP signaling in mouse embryonic stem cells. Protein Cell. 2012 Jun; 3(6):401-4. Li Z, Chen YG. PMID: 22528752; PMCID: PMC4875488.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Where PI3K/Akt meets Smads: the crosstalk determines human embryonic stem cell fate. Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Mar 02; 10(3):231-2. Chen YG, Li Z, Wang XF. PMID: 22385648; PMCID: PMC3586792.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 19 Fields: - BMP4 Signaling Acts via dual-specificity phosphatase 9 to control ERK activity in mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Feb 03; 10(2):171-82. Li Z, Fei T, Zhang J, Zhu G, Wang L, Lu D, Chi X, Teng Y, Hou N, Yang X, Zhang H, Han JD, Chen YG. PMID: 22305567.
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Translation:HumansAnimalsCells - Smad2 mediates Activin/Nodal signaling in mesendoderm differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell Res. 2010 Dec; 20(12):1306-18. Fei T, Zhu S, Xia K, Zhang J, Li Z, Han JD, Chen YG. PMID: 21079647.
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Translation:AnimalsCells - Genome-wide mapping of SMAD target genes reveals the role of BMP signaling in embryonic stem cell fate determination. Genome Res. 2010 Jan; 20(1):36-44. Fei T, Xia K, Li Z, Zhou B, Zhu S, Chen H, Zhang J, Chen Z, Xiao H, Han JD, Chen YG. PMID: 19926752; PMCID: PMC2798829.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 63 Fields:
Translation:AnimalsCells
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