This is an important area for future research in order to optimize cell-based therapies for disease. The transient mobilization increase in

Data suggest that the ideal training stimulus for increasing stem cell quantity involves moderate to high training intensity and frequency u

Why the velodrome? First, to place this blog in some sort of "stem cell" world, I do believe that exercise and racing are helpful

INTRODUCTION As we have seen in previous blog posts in this mini-series of obesity and stem cells, there is a chronic low-grade systemic inflammation (metabolic inflammation) in obesity. The proinflammatory condition of obesity is considered the main factor in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance, leading to Type 2 diabetes; previous blog posts in this mini-series have discussed some of the association of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, but we haven’t yet discussed their impac

Image: Wikipedia INTRODUCTION Over the past several blog posts, we have seen the significant negative effects of obesity. There are also differences between genders with regard to obesity; premenopausal women actually have a protection agains obesity compared to men and postmenopausal women; leukocyte and haematopoietic stem cells have different responses to obesity and these autonomous differences lead to an amplified response in males compared with females.(1) That is to sa