**7. Conclusions**

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy has shown promising results in spinal cord injury repair. Animal studies and clinical trials performed in human patients using mesenchymal stem cells suggested that this therapy can be a promising candidate for patients suffering from spinal cord injury. MSCs derived from different sources offer potential healing in different spinal cord injury conditions.

#### **Acknowledgements**

This study was supported in part by the Mayo Clinic Center of Individualized Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Neuro-Oncology Convergence Grant.

## **Conflict of interest**

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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