“…Recently, adipose-derived stem cells (ASC) from mice, rats, nonhuman primates, and humans were demonstrated to differentiate into cells with neural and glial markers in vivo and in vitro [2,7,17,18,[22][23][24]27,36]. In addition to their pluripotency, ASC were reported to secrete many neurotrophic factors including brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) to protect neurons [19,21,30,35].…”