Meeting report: Discussions and preliminary findings on extracellular RNA measurement methods from laboratories in the NIH Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Laurent, Louise C ^a,b   Abdel Mageed, Asim B ^c   David Adelson, P ^d   Arango, Jorge ^d   Balaj, Leonora ^e   Breakefield, Xandra ^e   Carlson, Elizabeth ^f   Carter, Bob S ^g   Majem, Blanca ^h   Chen, Clark C ^g   Cocucci, Emanuele ⁱ   Danielson, Kirsty ^j   Courtright, Amanda ^f   Das, Saumya ^j   Elmageed, Zakaria Y Abd ^c   Enderle, Daniel ^k   Ezrin, Alan ^l   Ferrer, Marc ^m   Freedman, Jane ⁿ   Galas, David ^o,p   Gandhi, Roopali ^e   Huentelman, Matthew J ^f   Van Keuren Jensen, Kendall ^f   Kalani, Yashar ^q   Kim, Yong ^h   Krichevsky, Anna M ^e   Lai, Charles ^e   Lal Nag, Madhu ^m   Laurent, Clara D ^j   Leonardo, Trevor ^j   Li, Feng ^h   Malenica, Ivana ^f   Mondal, Debasis ^c   Nejad, Parham ^e   Patel, Tushar ^r   Raffai, Robert L ^s,t   Rubio, Renee ^u   Skog, Johan ^v   Spetzler, Robert ^q   Sun, Jie ^h   Tanriverdi, Kahraman ⁿ   Vickers, Kasey ^w,x   Wang, Liang ^y   Wang, Yaoyu ^u   Wei, Zhiyun ^e   Weiner, Howard L ^e   Wong, David ^h   Yan, Irene K ^r   Yeri, Ashish ^f   Gould, Stephen ^z   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k Exosome Diagnostics GmbH   (Germany)

^l NX Pharmagen   (United States)

^m NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^o PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^q BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t Mayo Clinic Florida ^*  (United States)

^u DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^v Exosome Diagnostics   (United States)

^w VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^x VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^y MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^z JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Exosomes; Extracellular RNA; Extracellular vesicles; Microvesicles; RNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN EXRNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EXOSOME; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957808674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20013078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/jev.v4.26533     Document Type: Article

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