Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells: Future regenerative medicine for clinical applications in mitigation of radiation injury

Table 2 Characteristic feature of major mesenchymal stem cells

Characteristics	BM-MSCs	AD-MSCs	UC-MSCs	Ref.
Harvesting procedure	Invasive	Invasive	Non-invasive	[18]
Potency to differentiate	Low	Low	High	[18,20]
Proliferative potential	Low	Low	High	[18,20,21]
Immune modulatory properties	Good	Good	Good	[18]
Allogenic cell rejection	No	No	No	[18,22]
Ethical issue	No	No	No	[23]
Risk of tumorigenicity	No	No	No	[18]

BM-MSC: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell; AD-MSC: Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell; UC-MSC: Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell.