Lavandula angustifolia Extract Improves the Result of Human Umbilical Mesenchymal Wharton’s Jelly Stem Cell Transplantation after Contusive Spinal Cord Injury in Wistar Rats

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Stem cell therapy and administration of L. angustifolia improved histomorphological evaluation results in the rat spinal cord contusion model. Transverse section of spinal cord showing the ventral horn gray matter from spinal cord at the level of T12-L1 of all groups which evaluated in this study at day 56. H&E staining showed shrinkage and decrease of ventral horn motor neurons of HUMSCs in compare with control 1 (SCI) () and HUMSCs + Lav 100, 200, and 400 mg/Kg/day in comparison with HUMSCs. Yellow arrows illustrating the ventral horn motor neurons and blue arrows show central canal. HUMSCs therapy improved the number and shape of central canal and L. angustifolia extract potentiated this effect. Bar in 40X = 100 micrometer and bar in 200X = 50 micrometer. (ECLIPSE 5Oi microscope).

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