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27 October 2025

Background: Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, releases outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that may contribute to infection and modulate the host immune response. Although interest in OMVs is growing, few studies have systematical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,301 Views
15 Pages

Comparison of Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Methods for miRNA Sequencing

  • Meritxell Llorens-Revull,
  • Brenda Martínez-González,
  • Josep Quer,
  • Juan Ignacio Esteban,
  • Gonzalo Núñez-Moreno,
  • Pablo Mínguez,
  • Idoia Burgui,
  • Ricardo Ramos-Ruíz,
  • María Eugenia Soria and
  • Maria Isabel Costafreda
  • + 13 authors

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) encapsulated in extracellular vesicles (EVs) are potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. However, discrepancies in miRNA patterns and their validation are still frequent due to differences in sample origin, EV isolation, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,149 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Methods on Downstream miRNA Analysis in Semen: A Comparative Study

  • Marina Mercadal,
  • Carolina Herrero,
  • Olga López-Rodrigo,
  • Manel Castells,
  • Alexandre de la Fuente,
  • Francesc Vigués,
  • Lluís Bassas and
  • Sara Larriba

19 August 2020

Seminal plasma (SP) contains a unique concentration of miRNA, mostly contained in small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) such as exosomes, some of which could be clinically useful for diagnosis and/or prognosis of urogenital diseases such as prostate ca...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,010 Views
42 Pages

12 March 2025

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanovesicles that facilitate intercellular communication by carrying essential biomolecules under physiological and pathological conditions including microRNAs (miRNAs). They are found in various body fluids, such as...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,086 Views
20 Pages

Small extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a pivotal role in intercellular communication across various physiological and pathological contexts. Despite their growing significance as disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets in biomedical research, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,019 Views
11 Pages

Extracellular Vesicle Isolation and Characterization from Periprosthetic Joint Synovial Fluid in Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty

  • Julian M. Rüwald,
  • Thomas M. Randau,
  • Cäcilia Hilgers,
  • Werner Masson,
  • Stephan Irsen,
  • Robin L. Eymael,
  • Hendrik Kohlhof,
  • Sascha Gravius,
  • Christof Burger and
  • Frank A. Schildberg
  • + 1 author

14 February 2020

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) comprise an as yet insufficiently investigated intercellular communication pathway in the field of revision total joint arthroplasty (RTJA). This study examined whether periprosthetic joint synovial fluid contains EVs, de...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,828 Views
26 Pages

23 October 2023

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are an important intercellular communicator, participating in all stages of cancer metastasis, immunity, and therapeutic resistance. Therefore, protein cargoes within sEVs are considered as a superior source for br...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
6,702 Views
15 Pages

Mass-Spectrometry Based Proteome Comparison of Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Methods: Comparison of ME-kit, Size-Exclusion Chromatography, and High-Speed Centrifugation

  • Anders Askeland,
  • Anne Borup,
  • Ole Østergaard,
  • Jesper V. Olsen,
  • Sigrid M. Lund,
  • Gunna Christiansen,
  • Søren R. Kristensen,
  • Niels H. H. Heegaard and
  • Shona Pedersen

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small membrane-enclosed particles released by cells under various conditions specific to cells’ biological states. Hence, mass-spectrometry (MS) based proteome analysis of EVs in plasma has gained much attention...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,108 Views
15 Pages

Improving Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles by Utilizing Nanomaterials

  • Haiyang Zhang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Deng,
  • Mengxi Chen and
  • Chenxi Yang

31 December 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) as the new form of cellular communication have been demonstrated their potential use for disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. EVs are vesicles with a lipid bilayer and are present in various biofluids, such as bloo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,765 Views
13 Pages

Isolation and Quantification of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles for Quantitative Metabolic Studies Using Mammalian Cell Cultures

  • Marcel Kretschmer,
  • Julia Müller,
  • Petra Henke,
  • Viktoria Otto,
  • Alejandro Arce Rodriguez,
  • Mathias Müsken,
  • Dieter Jahn,
  • José Manuel Borrero-de Acuña,
  • Meina Neumann-Schaal and
  • Andre Wegner

21 November 2023

Bacterial membrane vesicles (BMVs) are produced by most bacteria and participate in various cellular processes, such as intercellular communication, nutrient exchange, and pathogenesis. Notably, these vesicles can contain virulence factors, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,367 Views
16 Pages

Optimized Protocol for Isolation of Small Extracellular Vesicles from Human and Murine Lymphoid Tissues

  • Marie Bordas,
  • Géraldine Genard,
  • Sibylle Ohl,
  • Michelle Nessling,
  • Karsten Richter,
  • Tobias Roider,
  • Sascha Dietrich,
  • Kendra K. Maaß and
  • Martina Seiffert

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are nanoparticles responsible for cell-to-cell communication released by healthy and cancer cells. Different roles have been described for sEVs in physiological and pathological contexts, including acceleration of...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,128 Views
33 Pages

9 November 2024

Over the last few decades, malaria-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have gained increasing interest due to their role in disease pathophysiology and parasite biology. Unlike other EV research fields, the isolation of malaria EVs is not standardiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,966 Views
19 Pages

Isolation of Small Extracellular Vesicles from Human Sera

  • Małgorzata S. Małys,
  • Christof Aigner,
  • Stefan M. Schulz,
  • Helga Schachner,
  • Andrew J. Rees and
  • Renate Kain

Robust, well-characterized methods for purifying small extracellular vesicles (sEV) from blood are needed before their potential as disease biomarkers can be realized. Here, we compared isolation of sEV from serum by differential ultracentrifugation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,498 Views
11 Pages

Comparative miRNA Analysis of Urine Extracellular Vesicles Isolated through Five Different Methods

  • Felix Royo,
  • Izzuddin Diwan,
  • Michael R. Tackett,
  • Patricia Zuñiga,
  • Pilar Sanchez-Mosquera,
  • Ana Loizaga-Iriarte,
  • Aitziber Ugalde-Olano,
  • Isabel Lacasa,
  • Amparo Perez and
  • Juan M. Falcon-Perez
  • + 2 authors

10 December 2016

Urine extracellular vesicles are a valuable low-invasive source of information, especially for the cells of the genitourinary tract. In the search for biomarkers, different techniques have been developed to isolate and characterize the cargo of these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,314 Views
14 Pages

Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles of Holothuria (Sea Cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix)

  • Anastasiya V. Tupitsyna,
  • Alina E. Grigorieva,
  • Svetlana E. Soboleva,
  • Nadezhda A. Maltseva,
  • Sergey E. Sedykh,
  • Julia Poletaeva,
  • Pavel S. Dmitrenok,
  • Elena I. Ryabchikova and
  • Georgy A. Nevinsky

17 August 2023

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), carriers of molecular signals, are considered a critical link in maintaining homeostasis in mammals. Currently, there is growing interest in studying the role of EVs, including exosomes (subpopulation of EVs), in animals...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,003 Views
10 Pages

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are lipid structures containing various biomolecules in their native environment and are spontaneously shed by gram-negative bacteria. OMVs perform several biological functions critical to both bacterial physiology and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
116 Citations
10,952 Views
22 Pages

Methodologies to Isolate and Purify Clinical Grade Extracellular Vesicles for Medical Applications

  • Asma Akbar,
  • Farzaneh Malekian,
  • Neda Baghban,
  • Sai Priyanka Kodam and
  • Mujib Ullah

6 January 2022

The use of extracellular vesicles (EV) in nano drug delivery has been demonstrated in many previous studies. In this study, we discuss the sources of extracellular vesicles, including plant, salivary and urinary sources which are easily available but...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,188 Views
17 Pages

28 June 2023

Tremendous interest in research of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) is driven by the participation of vesicles in a number of biological processes in the human body. Being released by almost all cells of the body, sEVs present in complex bodily fl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,232 Views
18 Pages

Microfluidic Approaches and Methods Enabling Extracellular Vesicle Isolation for Cancer Diagnostics

  • Premanshu Kumar Singh,
  • Aarti Patel,
  • Anastasia Kaffenes,
  • Catherine Hord,
  • Delaney Kesterson and
  • Shaurya Prakash

16 January 2022

Advances in cancer research over the past half-century have clearly determined the molecular origins of the disease. Central to the use of molecular signatures for continued progress, including rapid, reliable, and early diagnosis is the use of bioma...

  • Review
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77 Citations
9,193 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2019

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer enclosed particles which present in almost all types of biofluids and contain specific proteins, lipids, and RNA. Increasing evidence has demonstrated the tremendous clinical potential of EVs as diagnost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,682 Views
13 Pages

Methodological Assessment of ExoGAG for Isolation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Extracellular Vesicles as a Source of Biomarkers

  • Nil Salvat-Rovira,
  • Anna Vazquez-Oliver,
  • Elisa Rivas-Asensio,
  • Marina Herrero-Lorenzo,
  • Ana Gámez-Valero,
  • Jesús Pérez-Pérez,
  • Cristina Izquierdo,
  • Antonia Campolongo,
  • Eulàlia Martí and
  • Rocío Pérez-González
  • + 1 author

22 December 2024

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) represent a valuable source of biomarkers for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, offering new pathways for diagnosis and monitoring. However, existing methods for isolating EVs from CSF of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,952 Views
23 Pages

Efficient Small Extracellular Vesicles (EV) Isolation Method and Evaluation of EV-Associated DNA Role in Cell–Cell Communication in Cancer

  • Venkatesh Kumar Chetty,
  • Jamal Ghanam,
  • Srishti Anchan,
  • Katarina Reinhardt,
  • Alexandra Brenzel,
  • Márton Gelléri,
  • Christoph Cremer,
  • Elena Grueso-Navarro,
  • Markus Schneider and
  • Basant Kumar Thakur
  • + 4 authors

20 April 2022

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) play essential roles in intercellular signaling both in normal and pathophysiological conditions. Comprehensive studies of dsDNA associated with sEVs are hampered by a lack of methods, allowing efficient separation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,711 Views
17 Pages

Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Biological Fluids via the Aggregation–Precipitation Approach for Downstream miRNAs Detection

  • Maria Y. Konoshenko,
  • Evgeniy A. Lekchnov,
  • Olga E. Bryzgunova,
  • Elena Kiseleva,
  • Inna A. Pyshnaya and
  • Pavel P. Laktionov

24 February 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have high potential as sources of biomarkers for non-invasive diagnostics. Thus, a simple and productive method of EV isolation is demanded for certain scientific and medical applications of EVs. Here we aim to develop a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,603 Views
27 Pages

Microfluidic Strategies for Extracellular Vesicle Isolation: Towards Clinical Applications

  • Alessio Meggiolaro,
  • Valentina Moccia,
  • Paola Brun,
  • Matteo Pierno,
  • Giampaolo Mistura,
  • Valentina Zappulli and
  • Davide Ferraro

29 December 2022

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are double-layered lipid membrane vesicles released by cells. Currently, EVs are attracting a lot of attention in the biological and medical fields due to their role as natural carriers of proteins, lipids, and nucleic ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,943 Views
17 Pages

Circulating cell-free nucleic acids (NAs), in particular plasma-derived cell-free DNA, have evolved into promising clinical analytes for prenatal diagnostics, cancer analysis, and cancer surveillance and therapy monitoring. Nevertheless, salivary ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,414 Views
14 Pages

Protein Profiling of Serum Extracellular Vesicles Reveals Qualitative and Quantitative Differences after Differential Ultracentrifugation and ExoQuick™ Isolation

  • Timo Gemoll,
  • Sarah Strohkamp,
  • Svitlana Rozanova,
  • Christian Röder,
  • Sonja Hartwig,
  • Holger Kalthoff,
  • Stefan Lehr,
  • Abdou ElSharawy and
  • Jens K. Habermann

Solid tumor biopsies are the current standard for precision medicine. However, the procedure is invasive and not always feasible. In contrast, liquid biopsies, such as serum enriched for extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent a non-invasive source of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
599 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2025

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by Fusarium oxysporum play an important role in the process of its infestation of the host, but the in vitro research system for EVs of F. oxysporum (Fo-EVs) has not yet been improved, and the mechanism of its ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,174 Views
19 Pages

Chromatographic Scalable Method to Isolate Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Liver Fibrosis in Mice

  • Luciana M. Domínguez,
  • Bárbara Bueloni,
  • Ma. José Cantero,
  • Milagros Albornoz,
  • Natalia Pacienza,
  • Celeste Biani,
  • Carlos Luzzani,
  • Santiago Miriuka,
  • Mariana García and
  • Guillermo Mazzolini
  • + 4 authors

New therapeutic options for liver cirrhosis are needed. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a promising tool for delivering therapeutic factors in regenerative medicine. Our aim is to establish a new thera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,243 Views
16 Pages

Selective Isolation of Liver-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Redefines Performance of miRNA Biomarkers for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

  • Lauren A. Newman,
  • Zivile Useckaite,
  • Jillian Johnson,
  • Michael J. Sorich,
  • Ashley M. Hopkins and
  • Andrew Rowland

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease. Definitive diagnosis of the progressive form, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), requires liver biopsy, which is highly invasive and unsuited to early disease or t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,540 Views
10 Pages

Molecular Characterization of Peripheral Extracellular Vesicles in Clinically Isolated Syndrome: Preliminary Suggestions from a Pilot Study

  • Nicoletta Nuzziello,
  • Maria Blonda,
  • Flavio Licciulli,
  • Sabino Liuni,
  • Antonella Amoruso,
  • Alessio Valletti,
  • Arianna Consiglio,
  • Carlo Avolio and
  • Maria Liguori

18 September 2017

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), nanoparticles originated from different cell types, seem to be implicated in several cellular activities. In the Central Nervous System (CNS), glia and neurons secrete EVs and recent studies have demonstrated that the in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,484 Views
17 Pages

Salting-Out Approach Is Worthy of Comparison with Ultracentrifugation for Extracellular Vesicle Isolation from Tumor and Healthy Models

  • Simona Serratì,
  • Antonio Palazzo,
  • Annamaria Lapenna,
  • Helena Mateos,
  • Antonia Mallardi,
  • René Massimiliano Marsano,
  • Alessandra Quarta,
  • Mario Del Rosso and
  • Amalia Azzariti

10 December 2021

The role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) has been completely re-evaluated in the recent decades, and EVs are currently considered to be among the main players in intercellular communication. Beyond their functional aspects, there is strong interest i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,881 Views
13 Pages

Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Yields Increased by Low-Temperature Gaseous Plasma Treatment of Polypropylene Tubes

  • Matic Resnik,
  • Janez Kovač,
  • Roman Štukelj,
  • Veronika Kralj-Iglič,
  • Petr Humpolíček and
  • Ita Junkar

15 October 2020

Novel Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) based diagnostic techniques are promising non-invasive procedures for early stage disease detection which are gaining importance in the medical field. EVs are cell derived particles found in body liquids, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,014 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Methods for Purity Assessment and Biomarker Discovery

  • Alexandra T. Star,
  • Melissa Hewitt,
  • Amanpreet Badhwar,
  • Wen Ding,
  • Tammy-Lynn Tremblay,
  • Jennifer J. Hill,
  • William G. Willmore,
  • Jagdeep K. Sandhu and
  • Arsalan S. Haqqani

18 September 2025

Background: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are an important source of blood biomarkers and are emerging as next-generation therapeutics. Demonstrating the purity of isolated EVs is essential for applications ranging from proteomics-based biomarker disc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,890 Views
29 Pages

Leishmania 360°: Guidelines for Exosomal Research

  • Áurea Martins Gabriel,
  • Adan Galué-Parra,
  • Washington Luiz Assunção Pereira,
  • Ketil Winther Pedersen and
  • Edilene Oliveira da Silva

Leishmania parasites are a group of kinetoplastid pathogens that cause a variety of clinical disorders while maintaining cell communication by secreting extracellular vesicles. Emerging technologies have been adapted for the study of Leishmania-host...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,198 Views
18 Pages

Characterisation of Extracellular Vesicles from Equine Mesenchymal Stem Cells

  • Robert Soukup,
  • Iris Gerner,
  • Sinan Gültekin,
  • Hayeon Baik,
  • Johannes Oesterreicher,
  • Johannes Grillari and
  • Florien Jenner

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanosized lipid bilayer-encapsulated particles secreted by virtually all cell types. EVs play an essential role in cellular crosstalk in health and disease. The cellular origin of EVs determines their composition and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,691 Views
18 Pages

Recent Advances in Microfluidic-Based Extracellular Vesicle Analysis

  • Jiming Chen,
  • Meiyu Zheng,
  • Qiaoling Xiao,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Caixing Chi,
  • Tahui Lin,
  • Yulin Wang,
  • Xue Yi and
  • Lin Zhu

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) serve as vital messengers, facilitating communication between cells, and exhibit tremendous potential in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, conventional EV isolation methods are labor-intensive, and they ha...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
306 Citations
14,465 Views
12 Pages

25 August 2020

Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) is growing exponentially due to an increasing appreciation of EVs as disease biomarkers and therapeutics, an expanding number of EV-containing materials under study, and application of new preparation, detecti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,782 Views
18 Pages

Extracellular Vesicles as a Therapeutic Tool for Kidney Disease: Current Advances and Perspectives

  • Raphael Rodrigues Corrêa,
  • Estela Mancheño Juncosa,
  • Rosalinde Masereeuw and
  • Rafael Soares Lindoso

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been described as important mediators of cell communication, regulating several physiological processes, including tissue recovery and regeneration. In the kidneys, EVs derived from stem cells have been shown to supp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,662 Views
28 Pages

Multifunctional Milk-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles and Their Biomedical Applications

  • Youxiu Zhong,
  • Xudong Wang,
  • Xian Zhao,
  • Jiuheng Shen,
  • Xue Wu,
  • Peifen Gao,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Junge Chen and
  • Wenlin An

In recent years, small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) have been regarded as the next generation of novel delivery systems after lipid nanoparticles because of their advantages and huge prospects in drug delivery. Studies have shown that sEVs are abund...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,337 Views
14 Pages

Elucidating Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Kinetics via an Integrated Off-Stoichiometry Thiol-Ene and Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Microfluidic Device

  • Janis Cipa,
  • Edgars Endzelins,
  • Arturs Abols,
  • Nadezda Romanchikova,
  • Aija Line,
  • Guido W. Jenster,
  • Gatis Mozolevskis and
  • Roberts Rimsa

21 December 2024

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are promising biomarkers for diagnosing complex diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Yet, their clinical application is hindered by challenges in isolating cancer-derived EVs efficiently due to their b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,094 Views
19 Pages

This systematic review offers a comprehensive analysis of plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs) as emerging drug delivery systems, focusing on original research articles published between 2016 and 2024 that exclusively examine the use of PDEVs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,776 Views
15 Pages

Rapid and Efficient Isolation of Exosomes by Clustering and Scattering

  • Jinhyun Kim,
  • Hoyoon Lee,
  • KyongHwa Park and
  • Sehyun Shin

28 February 2020

Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have become important biomarkers of liquid biopsies for precision medicine. However, the clinical application of EVs has been limited due to the lack of EV isolation practical technology applicable to clinic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,012 Views
23 Pages

Extracellular Vesicle Separation Techniques Impact Results from Human Blood Samples: Considerations for Diagnostic Applications

  • Theophilos Tzaridis,
  • Daniel Bachurski,
  • Shu Liu,
  • Kristin Surmann,
  • Felix Babatz,
  • Manuela Gesell Salazar,
  • Uwe Völker,
  • Michael Hallek,
  • Ulrich Herrlinger and
  • Gunther Hartmann
  • + 3 authors

26 August 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are reminiscent of their cell of origin and thus represent a valuable source of biomarkers. However, for EVs to be used as biomarkers in clinical practice, simple, comparable, and reproducible analytical methods must be a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,797 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2024

Early cancer detection and accurate monitoring are crucial to ensure increased patient survival. Recent research has focused on developing non-invasive biomarkers to diagnose cancer early and monitor disease progression at low cost and risk. Extracel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,669 Views
24 Pages

A New Perspective on Regenerative Medicine: Plant-Derived Extracellular Vesicles

  • Yuan Zuo,
  • Jinying Zhang,
  • Bo Sun,
  • Xinxing Wang,
  • Ruiying Wang,
  • Shuo Tian and
  • Mingsan Miao

28 July 2025

Plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs) are nanoscale, phospholipid bilayer-enclosed vesicles secreted by living cells through cytokinesis under physiological and pathological conditions. Owing to their high biocompatibility and stability, PDEVs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,414 Views
15 Pages

Brain-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Health and Disease: A Methodological Perspective

  • Santra Brenna,
  • Christoph Krisp,
  • Hermann Clemens Altmeppen,
  • Tim Magnus and
  • Berta Puig

29 January 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are double membrane structures released by presumably all cell types that transport and deliver lipids, proteins, and genetic material to near or distant recipient cells, thereby affecting their phenotype. The basic knowl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
6,348 Views
16 Pages

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are particles naturally released from cells, delimited by a lipid bilayer, carrying functionally active biological molecules. In addition to their physiological role in cellular communication, the interest of the scientif...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,752 Views
21 Pages

26 March 2023

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are the key mediators of intercellular communication. They have the potential for clinical use as diagnostic or therapeutic biomarkers and have been explored as vectors for drug delivery. Identification of reliable...

  • Review
  • Open Access
373 Citations
21,089 Views
11 Pages

Challenges in Exosome Isolation and Analysis in Health and Disease

  • Nils Ludwig,
  • Theresa L. Whiteside and
  • Torsten E. Reichert

21 September 2019

A growing body of evidence emphasizes the important role exosomes in different physiological and pathological conditions. Exosomes, virus-size extracellular vesicles (EVs), carry a complex molecular cargo, which is actively processed in the endocytic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,380 Views
15 Pages

Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-Positive Extracellular Vesicles in Urine—A Potential Liquid Biopsy Strategy for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis?

  • Susann Allelein,
  • Keshia Aerchlimann,
  • Gundula Rösch,
  • Roxana Khajehamiri,
  • Andreas Kölsch,
  • Christian Freese and
  • Dirk Kuhlmeier

17 June 2022

All cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) to communicate with adjacent and distant cells. Consequently, circulating EVs are found in all bodily fluids, providing information applicable for liquid biopsy in early cancer diagnosis. Studies observe...

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