Progress in exosome isolation techniques

Theranostics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 789-804

  Li, Pin ^a   Kaslan, Melisa ^b   Lee, Sze Han ^b   Yao, Justin ^b   Gao, Zhiqiang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Exosome; Isolation

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; CERAMIDE; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SPHINGOLIPID;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXOME ISOLATION TECHNIQUE; EXOSOME; EXOSOME PRECIPITATION; FILTRATION; FLOW FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; FRACTIONATION; HYDROSTATIC FILTRATION DIALYSIS; IMMUNOAFFINITY CAPTURE BASED TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; ISOPYCNIC ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS BASED ISOLATION TECHNIQUE; MICROPLATE BASED IMMUNOAFFINITY; MOVING ZONE ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL FILTRATION; SIZE BASED ISOLATION TECHNIQUE; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TANGENTIAL ULTRAFILTRATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION BASED ISOLATION TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EXOSOMES; HUMANS;

EID: 85016444448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.18133     Document Type: Review

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