SynthesisSystematic reviews2021
Efficacy of adipose tissue-derived stem cells in locomotion recovery after spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis on animal studies.
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- Treadmill Training Improves Functional Recovery After Injection of Adipose-Derived Stromal Vascular Fraction in Rats With a Spinal Cord Injury.Journal of neuroscience research · 2026Article
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- Adipose-derived stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries: Advances, challenges, and future directions.Regenerative therapy · 2024Review
- The effects of local delivery of laurus nobilis extract and adipose derived stem cells via electrospun gelatin scaffold on spinal cord injury inflammatoradscy response and its regeneration.Regenerative therapy · 2024Article
- Subpial transplantation of adipose-derived stem cells alleviates paraplegia in a rat model of aortic occlusion/reperfusion-induced spinal cord infarction.Regenerative therapy · 2024Article
- Intrathecal delivery of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in traumatic spinal cord injury: Phase I trial.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Efficacy of the immediate adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction autograft on functional sensorimotor recovery after spinal cord contusion in rats.Stem cell research & therapy · 2024Article
- Exploring the therapeutic potential of Sirt6-enriched adipose stem cell-derived exosomes in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury: unfolding new epigenetic frontiers.Clinical epigenetics · 2024Article
- Ameliorative potential of stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) in preclinical studies: A meta-analysis.Regenerative therapy · 2023Article
- Exercise combined with administration of adipose-derived stem cells ameliorates neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.Neural regeneration research · 2023Article
- Effects of melatonin-pretreated adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in an animal model of spinal cord injury.BMC neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cell Transplantation for Repair of the Spinal Cord and Prospects for Generating Region-Specific Exogenic Neuronal Cells.Cell transplantationReview
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Abstract
backgroundConsiderable disparities exist on the use of adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ADSCs) for treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). Hence, the current systematic review aimed to investigate the efficacy of ADSCs in locomotion recovery following SCI in animal models.
methodsA search was conducted in electronic databases of MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science until the end of July 2019. Reference and citation tracking and searching Google and Google Scholar search engines were performed to achieve more studies. Animal studies conducted on rats having SCI which were treated with ADSCs were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were lacking a non-treated control group, not evaluating locomotion, non-rat studies, not reporting the number of transplanted cells, not reporting isolation and preparation methods of stem cells, review articles, combination therapy, use of genetically modified ADSCs, use of induced pluripotent ADSCs, and human trials. Risk of bias was assessed using Hasannejad et al.'s proposed method for quality control of SCI-animal studies. Data were analyzed in STATA 14.0 software, and based on a random effect model, pooled standardized mean difference with a 95% confidence interval was presented.
resultsOf 588 non-duplicated papers, data from 18 articles were included. Overall risk of bias was high risk in 8 studies, some concern in 9 studies and low risk in 1 study. Current evidence demonstrated that ADSCs transplantation could improve locomotion following SCI (standardized mean difference = 1.71; 95%CI 1.29-2.13; p < 0.0001). A considerable heterogeneity was observed between the studies (I
conclusionWe conclude that any number of ADSCs by any prescription routes can improve locomotion recovery in an SCI animal model, at any phase of SCI, with any severity. Given the remarkable bias about blinding, clinical translation of the present results is tough, because in addition to the complexity of the nervous system and the involvement of far more complex motor circuits in the human, blinding compliance and motor outcome assessment tests in animal studies and clinical trials are significantly different.
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