Effects of the Insulted Neuronal Cells-Derived Extracellular Vesicles on the Survival of Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells following Cerebral Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Figure 9

Effect of hypoxia preconditioned UC-MSCs on the paracrine action of EVs from injured N2A cells. Hypoxia or normoxia preconditioned UC-MSCs were cultured with conditioned medium (R24H-N2A-CMs) and high concentration EVs (EVs-1) from injured N2A cells. (a) Expression and quantitative data of bax, bcl-2, cleaved-caspase3, cleaved-caspase9, and cytochrome C in each experiment group were determined by western blotting. (b–c) Apoptosis of UC-MSCs as quantified by LDH leakage assay. (d–e) Cell viability of UC-MSCs as determined by MTT assay. (f–g) Levels of ROS as evaluated by dihydroethidium-DCFH-DA assay. (h–i) Levels of ATP as detected by firefly luciferase assay. (j–k) Levels of SOD as assessed by WST-8 assay. (l–m) Levels of T-AOC as detected by ABTS assay. All data are presented as the (). ; , hypoxia group compared with normoxia group.

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