Adipose Stem Cells
Mechanisms
Adipose tissue contains numerous types of regenerative cells. These include adult stem cells, vascular endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle cells and other cell types.
These cells collectively contribute to healing and repair through a variety of mechanisms that involve promoting blood vessel growth in an area of injury, keeping alive injured cells that are at risk of dying (anti-apoptosis), and the ability to differentiate into several tissue types, such as bone, cartilage, fat, skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.
