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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2015

Biobanking of Exosomes in the Era of Precision Medicine: Are We There Yet?

Edna M Mora, Silvia Álvarez-Cubela, Elisa Oltra

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Role of dendritic cell‑derived exosomes in allergic rhinitis (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2023
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  12. Basic principles of biobanking: from biological samples to precision medicine for patients.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2021
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  13. Clinical applications for exosomes: Are we there yet?British journal of pharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Edna M MoraDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan 00936, Puerto Rico. edna.mora2@upr.edu.
Silvia Álvarez-CubelaDiabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA. salvarez@med.miami.edu.
Elisa OltraFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia "San Vicente Mártir", Valencia 46001, Spain. elisa.oltra@ucv.es.
University of Miami · USUniversity of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus · PRValencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emerge of personalized medicine demands high-quality human biospecimens with appropriate clinical annotation, especially in complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, and metabolic alterations in which specimen heterogeneity and individual responses often complicate the development of precision therapeutic programs. In the growing field of extracellular vesicles (EVs) research, exosomes (EXOs)--a particular type of EVs--have been proposed as an advantageous diagnostic tool, as effective delivery vehicles and as therapeutic targets. However, the lack of consensus on isolation methods and rigorous criteria to characterize them puts the term EXO into question at the time that might explain some of the controversial results found in the literature. A lack of response in the biobank network to warrant standard optimized procedures for the isolation, characterization, and storage of EXOs will undoubtedly lead to a waste of resources and failure. This review is aimed at highlighting the increasing importance of EXOs for the clinic, especially in the cancer field, and at summarizing the initiatives taken to improve current isolation procedures, classification criteria, and storage conditions of EXOs as an effort to identify technological demands that biobank platforms face for the incorporation of EXOs and other extracellular vesicle fractions as valuable biospecimens for research.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological Specimen BanksCell-Derived MicroparticlesExosomesHumansPrecision Medicinebiobankbiomarkerexogramexosomeprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID26712742
PMCPMC4730260
OpenAlexW2202631704

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