Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation in Rat Model of Spinal Cord Injury

To explore the effect of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC) transplantation on the levels of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) in spinal cord tissue of rat model of spinal cord injury (SCI). BMSCs from 4-week-old male SD rats were isolated, cultured, and characterized after three generations using specific surface markers CD34 and CD44. Fifty four SD male rats were divided into sham...