Drug Delivery Systems Based on Extracellular Vesicles
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Functions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 9723
Special Issue Editors
Interests: extracellular vesicles; vaccine; cancer; mRNA; microRNAs; immune responses; T cells; dendritic cells; major histocompatibility complex (MHC); deep learning; virus
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Interests: computational toxicology; pharmacokinetics; pharmacovigilance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, emerging evidence that extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, play a critical role as new drug delivery systems and biomarkers has attracted attention. Through intercellular communications, EVs can mediate cargo transport, such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, and particularly non-coding RNAs, leading to functional modulations of key molecules in both physiological and pathological conditions, such as proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, inflammation, regeneration, or immune tolerance.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest research on the role, purification, biogenesis, and structure of EVs in physiological or pathological areas. The topics that we intend to cover include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Intercellular communications by EVs and miRNAs;
- Drug delivery systems through EVs;
- Purification, biogenesis, and structure of EVs.
We welcome both research and review articles and look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yasunari Matsuzaka
Prof. Dr. Yoshihiro Uesawa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extracellular vesicles(EVs)
- microRNAs
- intercellular communication
- biomarkers
- purification and biogenesis of EVs
- inflammation or immune tolerance
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