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Recent studies have shown that most ischemia-reperfusion model rats recover spontaneously after injury, which limits the ability to observe long-term behavioral recovery. Here, we used a severe stroke rat model with 150 minutes of ischemia, which produced severe behavioral deficiencies that persisted at 12 weeks, to study the therapeutic effect of neural stem cells on neural restoration in chronic stroke. Our study showed that stroke model rats treated with human neural stem cells had long-term sustained recovery of motor function, reduced infarction volume, long-term human neural stem cell survival, and improved local inflammatory environment and angiogenesis. 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