Introduction to Extracellular Vesicles: Biogenesis, RNA Cargo Selection, Content, Release, and Uptake

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 301-312

  Abels, Erik R ^a,b   Breakefield, Xandra O ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biogenesis; Cargo selection; Exosomes; Extracellular vesicles; Microvesicles; RNA

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; LIPID; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; EDITORIAL; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; EXOSOME; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MULTIVESICULAR BODY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EXOSOMES; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA;

EID: 84962733931     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-016-0366-z     Document Type: Editorial

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