Exosome Secretion – More than Simple Waste Disposal? Implications for Physiology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Less than 100 nm in size and spherical in form - exosomes – vesicles expelled and taken up by cells, have ignited a new-found fascination. One which is derived from the sheer variety of exosomal content, ranging from micro‐ RNAs to transcription factors, capable of affecting a multitude of processes...

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Main Author: Sivappriyan Nagarajah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AboutScience Srl 2016-04-01
Series:Journal of Circulating Biomarkers
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Online Access:http://www.intechopen.com/journals/journal-of-circulating-biomarkers/exosome-secretion-ndash-more-than-simple-waste-disposal-implications-for-physiology-diagnostics-and-