Obesity and Wound Healing: Focus on Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Overview

Journal Life (Basel)

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Mar 29

PMID 36983872

Authors

Antonio Alma

Guya Diletta Marconi

Elena Rossi

Cristina Magnoni

Alessia Paganelli

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Abstract

Chronic wounds represent nowadays a major challenge for both clinicians and researchers in the regenerative setting. Obesity represents one of the major comorbidities in patients affected by chronic ulcers and therefore diverse studies aimed at assessing possible links between these two morbid conditions are currently ongoing. In particular, adipose tissue has recently been described as having metabolic and endocrine functions rather than serving as a mere fat storage deposit. In this setting, adipose-derived stem cells, a peculiar subset of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) located in adipose tissue, have been demonstrated to possess regenerative and immunological functions with a key role in regulating both adipocyte function and skin regeneration. The aim of the present review is to give an overview of the most recent findings on wound healing, with a special focus on adipose tissue biology and obesity.

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