Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are involved in intercellular communication during cancer progression; thus, elucidating the mechanism of EV secretion in cancer cells will contribute to the development of an EV-targeted cancer treatment...
Read More »Exosomes and Their Role in Cancer Progression
Exosomes are a subset of extracellular vesicles and their size is approximately 100 nm in diameter. They are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane and secreted from almost all of cells. Exosomes are generated within the endocytic system as ILV ...
Read More »Extracellular Vesicles As Nanomedicine – Hopes And Hurdles In Clinical Translation
The clinical development of cell therapies is revealing that extracellular vesicles (EVs) may become very instrumental as subcellular therapeutic adjuncts in human medicine. EVs are released by various types of cells, grown in culture, such as...
Read More »Cow milk EVs may transfer their miRNA to human cells and regulate recipient cell gene expression programming
MicroRNA (miRNA) are small gene-regulatory noncoding RNA that are highly enriched in cow milk. They are encapsulated in different extracellular vesicle (EV) subsets that protect them from the...
Read More »Nomenclature – extracellular vesicles or exosomes?
Usage and rate of increase of common EV terms in PubMed-indexed articles A major focus of the recently updated guidelines of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) on...
Read More »Exosome-Mediated Metastasis – Communication from a Distance
Metastasis, a critical phase of tumor progression, remains a primary challenge in treating cancer and a major cause of cancer mortality. Cell-cell communication via extracellular vesicles...
Read More »A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles
A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) labs, offering a manufacturing standardization process which may have...
Read More »An endothelial-to-adipocyte extracellular vesicle axis governed by metabolic state
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the existence of extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated signaling between cell types within the adipose tissue (AT) proper. This phenomenon became evident in their...
Read More »pH-responsive hyaluronate-anchored extracellular vesicles to promote tumor-targeted drug delivery
pH-Responsive drug vehicles targeting the specific extracellular pH of tumors have served as potent tools to overcome the limitation (e.g., low tumor seletivity) in antitumor drug delivery system. Here...
Read More »Detection of single-point mutation in extracellular vesicle-associated RNAs with molecular beacons
Detection of specific extracellular RNAs has been developed for non-invasive cancer diagnosis. However, accurate and efficient identification of RNAs with single-point mutation in cancer cells-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) is challenging. Researchers...
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