“…In addition, suppression of T cell proliferation induced by human MSC appears to depend, at least in part, on the cross-talk between the two cell populations, leading to the production of inflammatory cytokines such as IFN-c [39] and IL-1b [37] by activated immune cells. Inhibition of T cell proliferation resulted in the decreased production of effector Th1 cytokines [16,42,46]; however, the expression of activation markers in T cells that have been cultured with MSC remains a controversial issue [39,43,45,47]. Inhibition of T cell proliferation by MSC appears to be subsequent both to cell-to-cell interaction and to the release of soluble factors, and it is conceivable that discrepant findings reported in the literature reflect differences in the experimental conditions used [13,14,16,48,49].…”