Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are released from basically all cells. Over the last decade, small EVs (sEVs; 50-150 nm) have gained enormous attention in diagnostics and therapy. However, methodological limitations coupled to the lack of EV standards leave...
Read More »Centrifugation affects the purity of liquid biopsy-based tumor biomarkers.
Biomarkers in the blood of cancer patients include circulating tumor cells (CTCs), tumor-educated platelets (TEPs), tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (tdEVs), EV-associated miRNA (EV-miRNA), and circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA). Because the size and density of biomarkers differ, blood is centrifuged to isolate ...
Read More »Extracellular vesicles as markers and mediators in sepsis
Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. It remains a highly lethal condition in which current tools for early diagnosis and...
Read More »The role of extracellular vesicles in malaria biology and pathogenesis
In the past decade, research on the functions of extracellular vesicles in malaria has expanded dramatically. Investigations into the various vesicle types, from both host and parasite origin, has revealed important roles for extracellular vesicles in disease pathogenesis and susceptibility, ...
Read More »Engineered synthetic extracellular vesicles could represent new therapeutics
MiRNAs are small noncoding RNAs vital for protein regulation and gene expression. Since their discovery in the early nineties, many of their intracellular roles have been characterized. However, it is only recently that EVs loaded with miRNAs and other molecular ...
Read More »Proteomic insights into extracellular vesicle biology – defining exosomes and shed microvesicles.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are critical mediators of intercellular communication, capable of regulating the transcriptional landscape of target cells through horizontal transmission of biological information, such as proteins, lipids, and RNA species. This capability highlights their potential as novel targets for ...
Read More »A standardized method to determine the concentration of extracellular vesicles using tunable resistive pulse sensing
Understanding the pathogenic role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in disease and their potential diagnostic and therapeutic utility is extremely reliant on in-depth quantification, measurement and identification of EV sub-populations. Quantification of EVs has presented several challenges, predominantly due to the ...
Read More »Significance of extracellular vesicles – pathobiological roles in disease
Over the past decade, many studies have been conducted on extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the fields of basic and clinical research. EVs are small sized membranous vesicles generated from many type of cells upon activation by environmental stresses such as ...
Read More »Extracellular Vesicles in the Intrauterine Environment
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes (30-150 nm) and microvesicles (100-1,500 nm) play important roles in mediating cell-cell communication. Such particles package distinct cargo elements including lipids, proteins, mRNAs, miRNAs and DNA, that vary depending on the cell of origin and ...
Read More »Analytical challenges of extracellular vesicle detection – A comparison of different techniques
The interest in extracellular vesicles (EVs) has grown exponentially over the last decade. Evolving evidence is demonstrating that these EVs are playing an important role in health and disease. They are involved in intercellular communication and have been shown to ...
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