Shedding light on the cell biology of extracellular vesicles

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 213-228

  Van Niel, Guillaume ^a   D'Angelo, Gisela ^b   Raposo, Graça ^b  

^a CENTRE DE PSYCHIATRIE ET NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSPORT; DEGRADATION; ENDOSOME; EXOSOME; HUMAN; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MULTIVESICULAR BODY; NONHUMAN; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE FUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; EXOSOMES; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85044144248     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2017.125     Document Type: Review

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