“…All these studies were published between 2013 and 2020, and 367 animals were included in this meta-analysis. Among the included studies, six of them used bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells-exosome (Xin et al, 2013a(Xin et al, , 2017aDeng et al, 2019;Safakheil and Safakheil, 2020;Zhao et al, 2020), one adopted adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells-exosome (Chen K. H. et al, 2016), one applied human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells-exosome , one used human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stromal cells-exosome (Nalamolu et al, 2019b), one used adipose-derived stem cellsexosome (Jiang et al, 2018), one used neural stem cells-exosome (Sun et al, 2019), one used human urine-derived stem cellsexosome (Ling et al, 2020), one used mouse brain endothelial cells-exosome (Venkat et al, 2019), one used macrophagesexosome (Zheng et al, 2019), one used microglia-exosome, and one used astrocytes-exosome (Pei et al, 2019;Song et al, 2019), and the two remaining used another origin of exosomes (Li et al, 2019;Nalamolu et al, 2019a). The ischemic stroke model was established with a unifilar nylon suture (Xin et al, 2013a(Xin et al, , 2017aChen K. H. et al, 2016;Jiang et al, 2018;Deng et al, 2019;Nalamolu et al, 2019a,b;Pei et al, 2019;Song et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2019;Zheng et al, 2019;Ling et al, 2020;Safakheil and Safakheil, 2020;Zhao et al, 2020), bipolar electrocoagulation forceps (Li et al, 2019), or thrombus (Venkat et al, 2019).…”