Extracellular membrane microvesicles and nanotubes in the brain: Understanding their nature, their function in cell-to-cell communication, their role in transcellular spreading of pathological agents and their therapeutic potential

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 JUL, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Verderio, Claudia ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA; NANOTUBE;

BIOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SPREADING; CELL TRANSPORT; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; EXOSOME; EXTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE MICROVESICLE; HUMAN; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; SYNAPSE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 84884552363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00163     Document Type: Editorial

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