“…Therefore, the pre-conditioning with preservation solution has been demonstrated to be a promising method to protect donor hearts against I/R injuryinduced graft dysfunction via the inhibition of in ammation and apoptosis. Recently, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that BMSCs can secrete a vast array of paracrine factors, including cytokines, microRNA, growth factors, antioxidants, proteasomes, and exosomes (32), which are thought to be responsible for the observed cardioprotective effects for I/R injury-induced infarcted hearts in myocardial infarction (13,33), brain-dead(23) and older(15) donor hearts in a rat heart transplantation model. In the present study, our antibodybased protein array analyses showed that the normoxic CM-BMSCs isolated by our group contained various kinds of cytokines, including Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1), Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1, Interleukin-10 (IL-10), Decorin, Activin A, Galectin-1, HGF, Interleukin-6 (IL-6), VEGF, which may be involved in cardiac protection and functional improvement observed in the present study.…”