Extracellular vesicles as tools and targets in therapy for diseases

MA Kumar, SK Baba, HQ Sadida… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nano-sized, membranous structures secreted into the
extracellular space. They exhibit diverse sizes, contents, and surface markers and are …

Exosomes─ nature's lipid nanoparticles, a rising star in drug delivery and diagnostics

R Tenchov, JM Sasso, X Wang, WS Liaw, CA Chen… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are a subgroup of nanosized extracellular vesicles enclosed by a lipid bilayer
membrane and secreted by most eukaryotic cells. They represent a route of intercellular …

Therapeutically harnessing extracellular vesicles

L Cheng, AF Hill - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research has developed rapidly over the last decade
from the study of fundamental biology to a subject of significant clinical relevance. The …

Extracellular vesicles as a next-generation drug delivery platform

IK Herrmann, MJA Wood, G Fuhrmann - Nature nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular-vesicle-based cell-to-cell communication is conserved across all kingdoms of
life. There is compelling evidence that extracellular vesicles are involved in major (patho) …

Exosomes, a new star for targeted delivery

H Chen, L Wang, X Zeng, H Schwarz… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Exosomes are cell-secreted nanoparticles (generally with a size of 30–150 nm) bearing
numerous biological molecules including nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, which are …

RNA delivery by extracellular vesicles in mammalian cells and its applications

K O'Brien, K Breyne, S Ughetto, LC Laurent… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
The term 'extracellular vesicles' refers to a heterogeneous population of vesicular bodies of
cellular origin that derive either from the endosomal compartment (exosomes) or as a result …

Extracellular vesicles in kidney disease

C Grange, B Bussolati - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2022 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles are released by the majority of cell types and circulate in body fluids.
They function as a long-distance cell-to-cell communication mechanism that modulates the …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular vesicles as drug delivery systems: Why and how?

OM Elsharkasy, JZ Nordin, DW Hagey… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, a multitude of synthetic drug delivery systems has been developed
and introduced to the market. However, applications of such systems are limited due to …

[HTML][HTML] Current knowledge on exosome biogenesis, cargo-sorting mechanism and therapeutic implications

S **e, Q Zhang, L Jiang - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoscale membrane vesicles released by donor cells that
can be taken up by recipient cells. The study of EVs has the potential to identify unknown …

The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer

A Möller, RJ Lobb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are regarded as having promising potential to
be used as therapeutics and disease biomarkers. Mechanistically, EVs have been shown to …