Research Article

Curcumin-Activated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Human Umbilical Cord and Their Effects on MPTP-Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease: A New Biological Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease

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Ultrastructure of hUC-MSCs-CUR and cytokine levels in the supernatant of hUC-MSCs-CUR. (a) The number of rough endoplasmic reticulum was obviously increased in hUC-MSCs-CUR compared with hUC-MSCs (arrows, ). (b) ELISA showed that the levels of IL-10, HGF, NGF, and VEGF were increased in the supernatant of hUC-MSCs-CUR (, vs. controls). The levels of G-CSF in the supernatant of hUC-MSCs were higher than those in hUC-MSCs-CUR () (Student’s -test). All experiments were performed thrice.
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