“…[122] Other studies provide additional evidence that substantiate the therapeutic potential of stem cell-derived EVs in mouse and rabbit models, where EV treatment led to a reduction in NPC necrosis and apoptosis, decreased catabolic enzyme and proinflammatory cytokine production, increased GAG content, and improvements in gait pattern, disc height index, MRI signal intensity, and histological score. [99,104,109,120,121,123,124] Some studies attribute these therapeutic effects to specific miRs found in EVs, where Cheng et al highlighted the role of miR-21 in preventing apoptosis, Zhang et al elucidated the role of miR-410 in reducing pyroptosis, and Xie et al specified the protective role of miR-31-5p in the ATF6/(ER stress pathway. [104,122,124] Conversely, other studies attribute therapeutic effects to a downregulation of specific miRs, where Yuan et al used MSC-EVs to deliver AntagomiR-4450 and block miR-4450, which in turn alleviated IVDD.…”