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Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Motor Function in a Rat Unilateral Spinal Cord Contusion Model

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Abstract

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are devastating with no effective treatments and excessive medical costs. Placental mesenchymal stem cells (PMSCs) are a promising avenue of treatment due to their neuroprotective and angiogenic properties (Kumar, 2019). In addition, extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from these stem cells are an attractive cell-free therapeutic approach. Extracellular vesicles are approximately 150 nm vesicles released by placental mesenchymal stem cells that contain the proteins, miRNAs and other cargo of the cells themselves (Ramasubramanian 2019).


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