ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2020
Activated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induce Recovery Following Stroke Via Regulation of Inflammation and Oligodendrogenesis.
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- Therapeutic role of mesenchymal stem cells in neurogenesis for management of neurological disorders: a scientometric study to an in-depth review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Safety and efficacy of bone marrow mononuclear cell therapy for ischemic stroke recovery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Pooled it
- Stem Cells in Post-Stroke Regenerative Therapy: Current Role of Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Orchestrum.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Rats as a Nonclinical Model of Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Stem cell-mediated recovery in stroke: partnering with the immune system.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Targeting Ischemic Stroke with Neural Stem Cells: Insights into Endogenous Repair Mechanisms, Biomaterial-Based Delivery, and Exosome Therapies.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Neural xenografts contribute to long-term recovery in stroke via molecular graft-host crosstalk.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The effects and mechanisms of stem cells and exosomes on neurological function protection and recovery after ischemic stroke.Neuroprotection (Chichester, England) · 2025Review
- Bibliometric Analysis and Visualized Study of Research on Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ischemic Stroke.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2025Review
- Neuroprotective effects of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (Neuroncell-EX) in a rat model of ischemic stroke are mediated by immunomodulation, blood-brain barrier integrity, angiogenesis, and neurogenesis.In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal · 2025Article
- Effects of stem cell therapy on preclinical stroke.Open veterinary journal · 2025Review
- Characteristics of Parthenogenetic Stem Cells and Their Potential Treatment Strategy for Central Nervous System Diseases.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Review
- Secretome from hypoxic mesenchymal stem cells as a potential therapy for ischemic stroke: Investigations onNarra J · 2024Article
- Brain repair mechanisms after cell therapy for stroke.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Review
- Priming and Combined Strategies for the Application of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ischemic Stroke: A Promising Approach.Molecular neurobiology · 2024Review
- Research progress and challenges of stem cell therapy for ischemic stroke.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Can Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Therapeutics Protect the Developing Brain During Cardiac Surgery?JACC. Basic to translational science · 2023Article
- Reconstituted Extracellular Vesicles from Human Platelets Decrease Viral Myocarditis in Mice.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023Article
- HMolecular neurobiology · 2023Review
- IL-6 and TGF-β-Secreting Adoptively-Transferred Murine Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Accelerate Healing of Psoriasis-like Skin Inflammation and Upregulate IL-17A and TGF-β.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background Brain repair mechanisms fail to promote recovery after stroke, and approaches to induce brain regeneration are scarce. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are thought to be a promising therapeutic option. However, their efficacy is not fully elucidated, and the mechanism underlying their effect is not known. Methods and Results The middle cerebral artery occlusion model was utilized to determine the efficacy of interferon-γ-activated mesenchymal stem cells (aMSCγ) as an acute therapy for stroke. Here we show that treatment with aMSCγ is a more potent therapy for stroke than naive MSC. aMSCγ treatment results in significant functional recovery assessed by the modified neurological severity score and open-field analysis compared with vehicle-treated animals. aMSCγ-treated animals showed significant reductions in infarct size and inhibition of microglial activation. The aMSCγ treatment suppressed the hypoxia-induced microglial proinflammatory phenotype more effectively than treatment with naive MSC. Importantly, treatment with aMSCγ induced recruitment and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes in vivo. To elucidate the mechanism underlying high efficacy of aMSCγ therapy, we examined the secretome of aMSCγ and compared it to that of naive MSC. Intriguingly, we found that aMSCγ but not nMSC upregulated neuron-glia antigen 2, an important extracellular signal and a hallmark protein of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. Conclusions These results suggest that activation of MSC with interferon-γ induces a potent proregenerative, promyelinating, and anti-inflammatory phenotype of these cells, which increases the potency of aMSCγ as an effective therapy for ischemic stroke.
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