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. 2008 Jul;57(7):1759–1767. doi: 10.2337/db08-0180

TABLE 2.

MSC therapy in various disease models in animals

Outcomes Reference
STZ diabetes Human-MSC grafted kidney and pancreas in STZ NOD.SCID mice ameliorating diabetes and kidney disease 59
Heart transplantation Allogenic rat-MSCs injected intravenously migrated to the heart during chronic rejection 60
Heart transplantation Allogenic rat-MSCs co-injected with cyclosporine accelerate rejection 50
Myocardial infarction Syngeneic rat-MSCs showed an anti-inflammation role in ischemic heart disease 61
Acute lung injury Syngeneic intrapulmonary murine-MSCs decrease the severity of endotoxin-induced acute lung injury and improve survival in mice 62
Chronic lung injury Syngeneic murine-MSCs protect lung tissue from bleomycin-induced injury with anti-inflammatory effect 63
Arthritis Allogenic murine-MSCs reduce joint inflammation and increase Treg generation 44
Kidney ischemia reperfusion injury Syngeneic murine-MSCs are helpful in the restoration of tubular epithelial cells with an anti-inflammatory effect 42
Multiple sclerosis model (EAE) Syngeneic murine-MSCs are home to inflamed lymphoid tissues reducing disease progression 43,64
Acute hepatic failure Human-MSCs protect against hepatocyte death and increase survival in mice after the injections of the hepatotoxin D-galactosamine 65
GHVD Allogenic rat-MSCs prevent lethal GVHD 66
GVHD Allogenic murine-MSCs did not improve GVHD 49
BM transplantation Donor-MSCs increase rejection of allogeneic donor bone marrow cells 37

Italics indicate contrasting reports. MSC were all bone marrow–derived (BM-MSC). EAE, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; STZ, streptozotocin.