AbstractExosomes are small vesicles that contain various of miRNA, mRNA and proteins, existing in a various of tissues and cells, and plays an important role in cell-cell communication. Various cell-derived exosomes have shown a protective effect on spinal cord injury (SCI). This study investigates the neuroprotective effect of Schwann cells-derived exosomes (SCs-Exos) after SCI. We found that SCs-Exos could be uptake directly by brain-derived endothelial cells.3 (bEnd.3 cells), and promoted proliferation, migration and tube formation of bEnd.3 cells. Additionally, our results showed that two pro-angiogenesis molecules, integrin-β1 and integrin-α1 were highly expressed in SCs-Exos. Then, we used special siRNA technology to investigate the effect of Integrin-β1 in SCs-Exos induced angiogenesis on bEnd.3 cells. We observed that the pro-angiogenic effect of SCs-Exos on bEnd.3 cells were suppressed by inhibiting the expression of integrin-β1. In the SCI model, we found that SCs-Exos attenuated tissue damage and improved functional recovery after SCI. Using immunofluorescence staining, we observed that SCs-Exos treatment promoted angiogenesis after SCI, and integrin-β1 was required in this process. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that SCs-Exos promote angiogenesis after SCI, and this process is partly related to the regulation of the expression of integrin-β1.