Immune response following traumatic spinal cord injury: Pathophysiology and therapies

RC Sterner, RM Sterner - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that is often associated with
significant loss of function and/or permanent disability. The pathophysiology of SCI is …

Concise review: mesenchymal stem cells and translational medicine: emerging issues

G Ren, X Chen, F Dong, W Li, X Ren… - Stem cells …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are emerging as a promising therapeutic approach of cell-
based therapy for a wide range of autoimmune disorders and degenerative diseases. In …

Exosome-shuttled miR-216a-5p from hypoxic preconditioned mesenchymal stem cells repair traumatic spinal cord injury by shifting microglial M1/M2 polarization

W Liu, Y Rong, J Wang, Z Zhou, X Ge, C Ji… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to severe motor and sensory dysfunction with
high disability and mortality. In recent years, mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-secreted nano …

Phylogenetic distinction of iNOS and IDO function in mesenchymal stem cell-mediated immunosuppression in mammalian species

J Su, X Chen, Y Huang, W Li, J Li, K Cao… - Cell Death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Mammalian mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been shown to be strongly
immunosuppressive in both animal disease models and human clinical trials. We have …

Clinical trials of stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury

K Yamazaki, M Kawabori, T Seki, K Houkin - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
There are more than one million patients worldwide suffering paralysis caused by spinal
cord injury (SCI). SCI causes severe socioeconomic problems not only to the patients and …

Cell therapies for spinal cord injury: a review of the clinical trials and cell-type therapeutic potential

BF Ribeiro, BC da Cruz, BM de Sousa, PD Correia… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an as yet untreatable neuropathology that causes severe
dysfunction and disability. Cell-based therapies hold neuroregenerative and neuroprotective …

Spinal cord injury: a review of current therapy, future treatments, and basic science frontiers

AK Varma, A Das, G Wallace, J Barry… - Neurochemical …, 2013 - Springer
The incidence of acute and chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) in the United States is more than
10,000 per year, resulting in 720 cases per million persons enduring permanent disability …

A phase III clinical trial showing limited efficacy of autologous mesenchymal stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury

SK Oh, KH Choi, JY Yoo, DY Kim, SJ Kim… - Neurosurgery, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: In our previous report, 3 of 10 patients with spinal cord injury who were
injected with autologous mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) showed motor improvement in the …

Translational considerations in injectable cell-based therapeutics for neurological applications: concepts, progress and challenges

MH Amer, FRAJ Rose, KM Shakesheff… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2017 - nature.com
Significant progress has been made during the past decade towards the clinical adoption of
cell-based therapeutics. However, existing cell-delivery approaches have shown limited …

Mesenchymal stem cell graft improves recovery after spinal cord injury in adult rats through neurotrophic and pro-angiogenic actions

R Quertainmont, D Cantinieaux, O Botman, S Sid… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Numerous strategies have been managed to improve functional recovery after spinal cord
injury (SCI) but an optimal strategy doesn't exist yet. Actually, it is the complexity of the …