Regenerative medicine is a healthcare innovation that itself is ready for innovations. Discussed here is how innovations will move this fiel

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Exercise training benefits the elderly and the young as well as men and women consistently with regard to stem cells / progenitor cells. Lon

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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