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ArticleBio-protocol2020

Isolating Multiple Extracellular Vesicles Subsets, Including Exosomes and Membrane Vesicles, from Bovine Milk Using Sodium Citrate and Differential Ultracentrifugation.

Abderrahim Benmoussa, Sara Michel, Caroline Gilbert, Patrick Provost

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Investigating Dietary microRNA Stability and Function Using a Transgenic Milk Model With Unique microRNA Sequences.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  5. Stem cell extracellular vesicles for neuropsychiatric disorders and translation.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026
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  8. Milk-Derived Extracellular Vesicles and microRNAs: Potential Modulators of Intestinal Homeostasis.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  18. Extracellular Vesicles in Veterinary Medicine.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Abderrahim BenmoussaCHUQ Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, 2705 Blvd Laurier, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
Sara MichelCHUQ Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, 2705 Blvd Laurier, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
Caroline GilbertCHUQ Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, 2705 Blvd Laurier, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
Patrick ProvostCHUQ Research Center/CHUL Pavilion, 2705 Blvd Laurier, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Milk is a complex fluid that contains various types of proteins and extracellular vesicles (EVs). Some proteins can mingle with EVs, and interfere with their isolation. Among these proteins, caseins form micelles of a size comparable to milk EVs, and can thus be co-isolated with EVs. Preliminary steps that affect milk are crucial for EV isolation and impact the purity and abundance of isolated EVs. In the course of our previous works on cow's milk EVs, we found that sodium citrate (1% final), which is a biocompatible reagent capable of breaking down casein micelles into 40-nm monomers, allowed the isolation of high quantities of EVs with low coprecipitation of caseins or other contaminating proteins. Using this protocol, we successfully separated different EV subsets, characterized in depth their morphology, protein content and small RNA enrichment patterns. We were also able to describe their biological function in a mouse model of intestinal inflammation. We, hereby, detail the differential ultracentrifugation procedure that leads to high quantify, medium specificity, isolation of different milk EV subsets from the same sample. More specifically, we highlight the use of sodium citrate as a standardized approach to isolate and study milk EVs and its potential for isolation techniques other than differential ultracentrifugation.

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Bovine MilkCaseinCitrateEVsExosomesExtracellular VesiclesMicrovesiclesMilkUltracentrifugation

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PMID33659307
PMCPMC7842771

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