Clinical trials

Femoral heads will be collected at University Hospital (London, ON, Canada) from individuals with type-2 diabetes, obesity, and no T2D/no obesity controls. The femoral head will be taken to the Robarts Research Institute (London, ON, Canada) for lineage-restricted progenitor cell expansion and analyses. There the femoral heads will be used to isolate three stem cell types - Multipotent Stromal Cells, Endothelial Colony Forming Cells, and Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells. The yield and cell surface markers expressed on these cells will be measured using flow cytometry. These cell types will then undergo further analyses of the secretome, tubule forming assays, vascular regenerative cell exhaustion assays, and will be transplanted into immune deficient mice with with femoral artery ligation. These experiments are to assess the differences in function and expression of these cell types between individuals with type-2 diabetes and/or obesity and/or healthy controls.