Searching for a Link between Bone Decay and Diabetes Type 2

Abstract

The current commentary describes the possible existing link between metabolic diseases such as diabetes type 2 and the degenerative patterns of bones via the molecular mechanism that inhibits the mesenchymal stem cells' differentiation into osteoblasts and osteocytes.

Keywords: Diabetes type 1-2; ageing; bone decay; bone marrow (BM); central nervous system (CNS); enteric nervous system (ENS); mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs); osteoblasts; regenerative medicine.