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Extracellular membrane vesicles as a mechanism of cell-to-cell communication: advantages and disadvantages.
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology - 1 Apr 2014
Turturici Giuseppina, Tinnirello Rosaria, Sconzo Gabriella, Geraci Fabiana
Abstract excerpt
Microvesicles represent a newly identified mechanism of intercellular communication. Two different types of microvesicles have been identified: membrane-derived vesicles (EVs) and exosomes. EVs originate by direct budding from the plasma membrane, while exosomes arise from ectocytosis of multivesicular bodies. Recent attention has focused on the capacity of EVs to alter the phenotype of neighboring cells to make...
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