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. 2025 Dec 5;17:21. doi: 10.1186/s13287-025-04813-5

Table 1.

The influence of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells extracellular vesicles on the proliferation and migration of different cell types

EV source Target cells EV dose Test* EV effect Signalling pathway References
AD-MSCs HDFs 1 × 10¹⁰ particles/ml

CCK-8

Scratch test

120% ↑ proliferation and migration - Lee et al. 2023 [29]
AD-MSCs HCEs 100 µg protein/ml

MTT

Scratch test

↑ proliferation and migration - Tao et al. 2019 [33]
AD-MSCs HUVECs 100 µg protein/ml

CCK-8

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

PI3K-AKT-mTOR-HIF-1α Liu et al. 2021 [35]
UCB-MSCs

HUVECs,

HDFs

ND

MTT

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Sung et al. [47]
UC-MSCs HDFs 20 µg protein/ml

CCK-8

Transwell test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Tang et al. 2023 [36]
UC-MSCs HUVECs 20 µg protein/ml

CCK-8

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

2,5-fold ↑ migration

- Yang et al. 2020 [30]
WJ-MSCs

HDFs

HaCaT

1 × 109 particles/ml Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Kim et al. 2023 [31]
AD-MSCs HaCaT 5 µg protein/ml

Scratch test

CCK-8

↑ migration

↑ proliferation

- Liao et al. 2022 [34]
UC-MSCs

HaCaT

HSFs

ND

Scratch test

Transwell

CCK-8

↑ migration

↑ migration

↑ proliferation

ITCH/JUNB/IRE1α Cheng et al. 2020 [37]
UC-MSCs HUVECs ND CCK-8 ↑ proliferation - Lu et al. 2024 [45]
HF-MSCs HDFs 1.5 × 1011 particles/ml

CCK-8

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Heras et al. 2022 [38]
P-MSCs HDFs 4.56 × 10¹⁰ particles/ml

CCK-8

Scratch test

Transwell

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

↑ migration

- Su et al. 2023 [39]
AD-MSCs HDFs 100 µg protein/ml WST-1 ↑ proliferation - Lin et al. 2023 [40]
P-MSCs HECFCs 1 × 109 particles/ml Cell proliferation assay no significant differences in proliferation - Hao et al. 2021 [41]
AD-MSCs HaCaT 250 µg protein/ml

PicoGreen

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Hodge JG et al. 2023 [42]
UC-MSCs HUVECs 1 × 10¹⁰ particles/ml

CKK-8

Scratch test

↑ proliferation

↑ migration

- Wu et al. 2024 [43]

AD-MSCs Adipose tissue Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal cells, UCB-MSCs Umbilical Cord Blood Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells, WJ-MSCs Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells, HaCaT Human immortal keratinocyte line, UC-MSCs Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells, HDFs Human Dermal Fibroblasts, HCEs Human Corneal Epithelial Cells, HUVECs - Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells, HSFs Human Skin Fibroblasts, WST-1 cell proliferation reagent, HECFCs Human Endothelial Colony Forming Cells, PI3K-AKT mTOR-HIF-1α Signalling pathway involved in regulation of angiogenesis and wound healing, ND no data,↑ increased,

*The principles underlying the applied tests are summarized in Supplementary Table 2