The Department of Biotechnologies, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, held a lecture entitled “The Impact of Obesity and Diabetes on Adipose-Derived Stem Cells” in the presence of a number of students and researchers concerned with medical affairs.
The lecture aimed to highlight data suggesting that the diabetes environment is changing the immune properties of stem cells in adipose tissue with a shift towards an inflammatory phenotype that may restrict their self-therapeutic use, as well as to review results that support the idea that the use of these cells could be a useful strategy to enhance the potential of stem cells in the therapy of diabetes. The lecture was presented by Dr. Ali Qasim Khazal included the definition of obesity, which is one of the factors that lead to the development of type II diabetes and that its spread is rising around the world, indicating that the change of obesity with the structure of adipose tissue thus leads to increased inflammation, imbalance in the functions of the endocrine glands, metabolism, and insulin resistance, pointing out that stem cells derived from fat have multiple functions, such as the regeneration of adipose-derived stem cells and the automatic repair of them.
