Insights of Extracellular Vesicles of Mesenchymal Stem Cells: a Prospective Cell-Free Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Disorders

Overview

Journal Mol Neurobiol

Specialties Molecular Biology
Neurology

Date 2021 Oct 29

PMID 34714469

Citations 16

Authors

P Vatsa

R Negi

U A Ansari

V K Khanna

A B Pant

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Abstract

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent, adult stem cells which are found in numerous tissues like the umbilical cord, Wharton's jelly, bone marrow, and adipose tissue. They possess the capacity of self-renewal by dividing and differentiating into various cellular lineages. Their characteristic therapeutic potential exploited so far has made them a desirable candidate in regenerative medicine. Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) like Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and ischemic stroke have been treated with MSCs and MSC-derived products. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed significant contributions in discovering the etiology of various NDs and their possible therapeutic solutions. One of the MSC-based therapeutics is extracellular vesicles (EVs), which contain multiple biologically active molecules like nucleic acids and proteins. The contents of EVs are ferried between cells for intercellular communication which then leads to regulation of the homeostasis of recipient cells. EVs serve as a considerable means of cell-free therapies like for tissue repair or regeneration as EVs can maintain therapeutically effective cargo of parent cells and are free of various ethical issues in cell-based therapies. Due to paucity of standard protocols in extraction procedures of EVs and their pharmacological properties and mechanisms, the development of new EV dependent therapies is challenging. With this review, an attempt has been made to annotate these mechanisms, which can help advance the novel therapeutic approaches towards the treat and define a more narrowed down approach for each ND to devise effective MSC-based therapies to cure and avert these diseases.

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