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Herein, we isolated mouse MSCs from pelvic bone marrow (BMP), a preferred source for human MSCs, and compared their growth, differentiation, and immuno-modulatory activity to those derived from long bone marrow (BML), the traditional source of mouse MSCs. We report that BMP-MSCs exhibit significantly enhanced growth kinetics in 5% and 21% oxygen saturation and superior bi-lineage differentiation and hematopoiesis-supporting activity as compared to BML-MSCs. Additionally, we show that TNF upregulates inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) in BML- and BMP- MSCs and augments their immune suppressive activity in cell-based assays, while interferon-gamma (INFG) upregulates indoleamine, 2-3, dioxygenase (IDO1) and enhances the immune suppressive activity of only BMP-MSCs. These results indicate that mouse MSCs sourced from different bone compartments exhibit measurable differences in critical quality attributes, and these differences are comparable to those observed across species. 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