Thus, the benefit of vselMSCs transplantation appears to be inextricably linked with the extent of HIF-2α and Oct4 coactivation, which is similar to the observation of Covello et al.9 that Oct4, as a HIF-2α-specific target gene, can regulate embryonic primordial germ cell function, which in turn contributes to HIF-2α's tumor promoting activity. Here, EPAS1 is linked to neoplasm.