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Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury: Current Options, Limitations, and Future of Cell Therapy

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The therapeutic role of MSCs is discussed, together with their properties, application, limitations, and future perspectives.
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) constitutes an inestimable public health issue. The most crucial phase in the pathophysiological process of SCI concerns the well-known secondary injury, which is the uncontrolled and destructive cascade occurring later with aberrant molecular signaling, inflammation, vascular changes, and secondary cellular dysfunctions. The use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) represents one of the most important and promising tested strategies. Their appeal, among the other sources and types of stem cells, increased because of their ease of isolation/preservation and their properties. Nevertheless, encouraging promise from preclinical studies was followed by weak and conflicting results in clinical trials. In this review, the therapeutic role of MSCs is discussed, together with their properties, application, limitations, and future perspectives.

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Multilineage cells from human adipose tissue: implications for cell-based therapies.

TL;DR: The data support the hypothesis that a human lipoaspirate contains multipotent cells and may represent an alternative stem cell source to bone marrow-derived MSCs.
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Human bone marrow stromal cells suppress T-lymphocyte proliferation induced by cellular or nonspecific mitogenic stimuli

TL;DR: The data demonstrate that autologous or allogeneic BMSCs strongly suppress T-lymphocyte proliferation, this phenomenon that is triggered by both cellular as well as nonspecific mitogenic stimuli has no immunologic restriction, and T-cell inhibition is not due to induction of apoptosis and is likely due to the production of soluble factors.
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Human mesenchymal stem cells modulate B-cell functions

TL;DR: The results further support the potential therapeutic use of hMSCs in immune-mediated disorders, including those in which B cells play a major role.
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G-CSF induces stem cell mobilization by decreasing bone marrow SDF-1 and up-regulating CXCR4

TL;DR: It is suggested that manipulation of SDF-1–CXCR4 interactions may be a means with which to control the navigation of progenitors between the BM and blood to improve the outcome of clinical stem cell transplantation.
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