The application belongs to the technical field of
medicine, and particularly relates to
pericyte-derived mitochondria-rich
extracellular vesicles and application thereof in
ischemic brain injury. The extraction method of the
extracellular vesicles comprises the following steps: (1)
cutting a
cerebral cortex part, adding
collagenase type II and DNase I for
digestion, and then adding a gradient separation liquid to separate pericytes; (2) spreading the pericytes on a culture dish coated with
collagen type IV and culturing in a
pericyte culture medium; (3) when the
cell confluence degree reaches 80% to 90%, the
cell culture medium is replaced with a fresh culture medium without exosomes FBS, the cells are subjected to OGD treatment and then reoxygenated for 24 hours, the culture supernatant is collected, and the culture supernatant is centrifuged to obtain the
extracellular vesicles. The PC-EVs obtained after OGD stress are found to be capable of protecting the brain from
ischemic stroke for the first time, and have important reference significance for researching and treating drugs related to
ischemic brain injury.