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Exosomes are small (∼30-140 nm) lipid bilayer-enclosed particles of endosomal origin. They are a subset of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are secreted by most cell types. There has been...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the leading type of cancer diagnosed in men. Studies on tumour-related extracellular vesicles (EVs) suggest that exosomes play a significant role in paracrine signaling pathways thus potentially influencing cancer progression via different mechanisms. During last decade ...

Leishmania use exosomes to communicate with their mammalian hosts and these secreted vesicles appear to contribute to pathogenesis by delivering protein virulence factors to macrophages. In other eukaryotes, exosomes were found to carry RNA cargo, such as mRNAs and small ...