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Exosomes and the kidney: Blaming the messenger
Author(s) -
Fang Doreen YP,
King Hamish W,
Li Jordan YZ,
Gleadle Jonathan M
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1111/nep.12005
Subject(s) - microvesicles , extracellular vesicles , biomarker , medicine , messenger rna , exosome , microbiology and biotechnology , rna , cell , computational biology , microrna , biology , gene , genetics
Enormous interest has focused on exosomes, the small membrane‐bound vesicles released into the extracellular environment by many cell types, since the realization that they play important functional roles across many aspects of cell biology and the potential to use their unique protein and RNA content as signatures in biomarker research.