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ArticleCells2020

Boosting the Biogenesis and Secretion of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes.

Jinli Wang, Emily E Bonacquisti, Adam D Brown, Juliane Nguyen

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Article in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.

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105citing papers in PubMed
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

105 citing papers in PubMed, 168 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biology and Therapeutic Potential of Exosomes, Targeted Drug Delivery.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. A Nanoparticle-Integrated Complete Manufacturing Pipeline of Chemically Engineered Exosomes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  16. Exosome: an overview on enhanced biogenesis by small molecules.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jinli WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA.
Emily E BonacquistiDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Adam D BrownDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Juliane NguyenDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

RNA EXO-Codes: A novel way to reprogram pathological exosomesR01EB023262 · NIBIB · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NGUYEN, JULIANE · 2017 to 2020
$1.7M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A limitation of using exosomes to their fullest potential is their limited secretion from cells, a major bottleneck to efficient exosome production and application. This is especially true for mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which can self-renew but have a limited expansion capacity, undergoing senescence after only a few passages, with exosomes derived from senescent stem cells showing impaired regenerative capacity compared to young cells. Here, we examined the effects of small molecule modulators capable of enhancing exosome secretion from MSCs. The treatment of MSCs with a combination of N-methyldopamine and norepinephrine robustly increased exosome production by three-fold without altering the ability of the MSC exosomes to induce angiogenesis, polarize macrophages to an anti-inflammatory phenotype, or downregulate collagen expression. These small molecule modulators provide a promising means to increase exosome production by MSCs.

Indexed as

Bodily SecretionsCell ProliferationCells, CulturedExosomesHumansMacrophagesMesenchymal Stem CellsSignal Transductionexosome secretionproteomicssmall molecules

Identifiers

PMID32182815
PMCPMC7140620
OpenAlexW3009964850

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