... preconditioning mesenchymal stem cell paracrine secretome traumatic brain injury • Human MSCs have been shown to support repair when administered to models of brain injury and this effect has been suggested to be via a paracrine effect through secreted trophic factors. • In present study...

...- tor of growth hormone effects and is expressed in various tissues in animals [2, 31. IGF-I may also have local autocrine or paracrine actions, in addi- tion to its role as a circulating hormone [3]. IGF-I mRNA has been detected in cardiac myocytes from neonatal rats [4] and is up-regulated in the rat...