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Objective To investigate the protective effect of hypoxic-preconditioned bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) on spinal cord tissue after ischemia reperfusion injury.Methods Healthy adult Sprague Dawley (SD) rats weighing 200 ～ 250 grams (g) were randomly divided into 3 groups with 6 animals in each group:The sham group received simple surgical manipulation without ischemia/reperfusion treatment;The spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion group (Control group) only received spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion surgery.The hypoxic preconditioned BMSC transplantation group (HP-MSCs group) was injected with hypoxic preconditioned BMSCs 2 days before ischemia/reperfusion.The control group,HP-MSCs group received spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion for 10 min and observed for 48 h.The permeability of the blood-spinal cord barrier was examined with Evans blue (EB),and the histomorphology changes were observed with hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining.Results EB red fluorescence was significantly weakened in the HP-MSCs group than that in the Control group (P ＜ 0.05),and more intact motor neurons were found in the lumbar spinal cords in the HP-MSCs group than that in the Control group (P ＜0.05).Conclusions The hypoxic-preconditioned BMSCs could effectively attenuate spinal cord ischemia reperfusion injury,it may be associated with protective effect of the blood-spinal cord barrier integrity.