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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2016

Extracellular vesicles and intercellular communication within the nervous system.

Valentina Zappulli, Kristina Pagh Friis, Zachary Fitzpatrick, Casey A Maguire, Xandra O Breakefield

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 154 papers.

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154citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

154 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Valentina Zappulli
Kristina Pagh Friis
Zachary Fitzpatrick
Casey A Maguire
Xandra O Breakefield

Funding

The role of microvesicles in giloma virotherapyP01CA069246 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHIOCCA, E. ANTONIO · 1996 to 2021
$30.9M
Transfer of microRNA regulators from glioblastoma to brain microenvironment U19CA179563 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BREAKEFIELD, XANDRA OWENS, CHAREST, ALAIN · 2013 to 2017
$8.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA069246NCI NIH HHS P01CA069246NCI NIH HHS U19 CA179563
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs, including exosomes) are implicated in many aspects of nervous system development and function, including regulation of synaptic communication, synaptic strength, and nerve regeneration. They mediate the transfer of packets of information in the form of nonsecreted proteins and DNA/RNA protected within a membrane compartment. EVs are essential for the packaging and transport of many cell-fate proteins during development as well as many neurotoxic misfolded proteins during pathogenesis. This form of communication provides another dimension of cellular crosstalk, with the ability to assemble a "kit" of directional instructions made up of different molecular entities and address it to specific recipient cells. This multidimensional form of communication has special significance in the nervous system. How EVs help to orchestrate the wiring of the brain while allowing for plasticity associated with learning and memory and contribute to regeneration and degeneration are all under investigation. Because they carry specific disease-related RNAs and proteins, practical applications of EVs include potential uses as biomarkers and therapeutics. This Review describes our current understanding of EVs and serves as a springboard for future advances, which may reveal new important mechanisms by which EVs in coordinate brain and body function and dysfunction.

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AnimalsCell CommunicationCell-Derived MicroparticlesDNAExosomesHumansNerve Tissue ProteinsNervous SystemRNADNANerve Tissue ProteinsRNA

Identifiers

PMID27035811
PMCPMC4811121

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