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Wang G, Dinkins M, He Q, Zhu G, Poirier C, Campbell A, Mayer-Proschel M, Bieberich E. Astrocytes secrete exosomes enriched with pro-apoptotic ceramide and prostate apoptosis response 4 (PAR-4): a potential mechanism of apoptosis induction in Alzheimer's disease (AD). J Biol Chem. 2012 Apr 24. [Epub ahead of print].

Toyofuku T, Nojima S, Ishikawa T, Takamatsu H, Tsujimura T, Uemura A, Matsuda J, Seki T, Kumanogoh A. Endosomal sorting by Semaphorin 4A in retinal pigment epithelium supports photoreceptor survival. Genes Dev. 2012 Mar 30. [Epub ahead of print]. (PDF) »

Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Hongyan Zhu, Evangelia G. Kranias, Yaoliang Tang, Tianqing Peng, Jiang Chang, Guo-Chang Fan. Hsp20 Functions as a Novel Cardiokine in Promoting Angiogenesis via Activation of VEGFR2. PLoS ONE 7(3): e32765. (PDF) »

Zhou Q, Li M, Wang X, Li Q, Wang T, Zhu Q, Zhou X, Wang X, Gao X, Li X. Immune-related MicroRNAs are Abundant in Breast Milk Exosomes. Int J Biol Sci 2012; 8:118-123. (PDF) »

Yaron Goren, Michal Kushnir, Barak Zafrir, Sarit Tabak, Basil S. Lewis, and Offer Amir. Serum levels of microRNAs in patients with heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail. published 25 November 2011, 10.1093/eurjhf/hfr155. (PDF) »

Haney MJ, Suresh P, Zhao Y, Kanmogne GD, Kadiu I, Sokolsky-Papkov M, Klyachko NL, Mosley RL, Kabanov AV, Gendelman HE, Batrakova EV. Blood-borne macrophage-neural cell interactions hitchhike endosome networks for cell-based nanozyme brain delivery. Nanomedicine (Lond). 2012 Jan 11. [Epub ahead of print].

Da Silveira JC, Veeramachaneni DN, Winger QA, Carnevale EM, Bouma GJ. Cell-Secreted Vesicles in Equine Ovarian Follicular Fluid Contain miRNAs and Proteins: A Possible New Form of Cell Communication Within the Ovarian Follicle. Biol Reprod. 2011 Nov 23. [Epub ahead of print].

Hartman ZC, Wei J, Glass OK, Guo H, Lei G, Yang XY, Osada T, Hobeika A, Delcayre A, Le Pecq JB, Morse MA, Clay TM, Lyerly HK. Increasing vaccine potency through exosome antigen targeting. Vaccine. 2011 Oct 12. [Epub ahead of print]. (PDF) »

As featured in: Exosome Isolation for Proteomic Analyses and RNA Profiling Douglas D. Taylor, Wolfgang Zacharias and Cicek Gercel-Taylor, Serum/Plasma Proteomics, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2011, Volume 728, Part 4, 235-246, (PDF) »

Karolina DS, Armugam A, Tavintharan S, Wong MTK, Lim SC, et al. MicroRNA 144 Impairs Insulin Signaling by Inhibiting the Expression of Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. PLoS ONE 6(8): e22839. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022839. (PDF) »

Tae Hoon Lee, Esterina D'Asti, Nathalie Magnus, Khalid Al-Nedawi, Brian Meehan and Janusz Rak. Review: Microvesicles as mediators of intercellular communication in cancer—the emerging science of cellular 'debris'. Seminars in Immunopathology DOI: 10.1007/s00281-011-0250-3. (PDF) »

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De Smaele E, Ferretti E, Gulino A. MicroRNAs as biomarkers for CNS cancer and other disorders. Brain Res. 2010 Jun 18;1338:100-11.

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Laterza OF, Lim L, Garrett-Engele PW, Vlasakova K, Muniappa N, Tanaka WK, Johnson JM, Sina JF, Fare TL, Sistare FD, Glaab WE. Plasma MicroRNAs as sensitive and specific biomarkers of tissue injury. Clin Chem. 2009 Nov;55(11):1977-83.

Valadi H, Ekström K, Bossios A, Sjöstrand M, Lee JJ, Lötvall JO. Exosome-mediated transfer of mRNAs and microRNAs is a novel mechanism of genetic exchange between cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2007 Jun;9(6):654-9.

Pegtel DM, Cosmopoulos K, Thorley-Lawson DA, van Eijndhoven MA, Hopmans ES, Lindenberg JL, de Gruijl TD, Wordinger T, Middeldorp JM. Functional delivery of viral miRNAs via exosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA; 2010 Apr 6; 107(14):6328-33.

Mathivanan, S. and Simpson, R.J. ExoCarta: A compendium of exosomal proteins and RNA. Proteomics. 2009.21, 4997-5000.

Thery C, Ostrowski M, Segura E. Membrane vesicles as conveyors of immune responses. Nat Rev Immunol. 2009. 8, 581-93.

Michael A, Bajracharya SD, Yuen PS, Zhou H, Star RA, Illei GG, Alevizos I. Exosomes from human saliva as a source of microRNA biomarkers. Oral Dis; 2010 Jan; 16(1):34-8.

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Taylor DD, Gercel-Taylor C. MicroRNA signatures of tumor-derived exosomes as diagnostic biomarkers of ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol; 2008 Jul; 110(1):13-21.

Simpson RJ, Lim JW, Moritz RL, Mathivanan S. Exosomes: proteomic insights and diagnostic potential. Expert Rev Proteomics. 2009 Jun;6(3):267-83. Review.