Diabetic serum from older women increases adipogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells.
Kendall F MoseleyMáire E DoyleSuzanne M Jan De BeurPublished in: Endocrine research (2018)
Systemic, circulating factors in the serum of older women with T2DM may promote MSC differentiation into adipocytes versus osteoblasts. Increased differentiation of MSCs into adipocytes is one possible mechanism by which T2DM increases fracture risk.