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ReviewJournal of extracellular vesicles2020

Functional assays to assess the therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles.

Vivian V T Nguyen, Kenneth W Witwer, Marianne C Verhaar, Dirk Strunk, Bas W M van Balkom

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Review in Journal of extracellular vesicles, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

104 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.

Vivian V T NguyenDepartment of Nephrology and Hypertension UMC Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.
Kenneth W WitwerDepartment of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology Department of Neurology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA.
Marianne C VerhaarDepartment of Nephrology and Hypertension UMC Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.
Dirk StrunkSpinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS) Cell Therapy Institute Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg Austria.
Bas W M van BalkomDepartment of Nephrology and Hypertension UMC Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.

Funding

Next-generation extracellular vesicle biologics to target central nervous system and peripheral reservoirs of HIVR01AI144997 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI RAMRATNAM, BHARAT, WITWER, KENNETH W · 2019 to 2023
$4.0M
Extracellular Vesicle and Extracellular RNA Biomarkers of HIV-1 Central Nervous System Pathogenesis and Cigarette UseR01DA047807 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WITWER, KENNETH W · 2018 to 2022
$3.7M
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Immunomodulation in HIV Infection and Nicotine AbuseR01DA040385 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WITWER, KENNETH W · 2015 to 2019
$2.3M
Novel Approaches to Capture, Sorting, and Characterization of CNS-Origin Extracellular VesiclesR33MH118164 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MACHAIRAKI, VASILIKI, WITWER, KENNETH W · 2020 to 2022
$2.2M
Novel Separation Methods for exRNA Carriers: Extracellular Vesicles, Lipoprotein Particles, and Protein AggregatesUG3CA241694 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WITWER, KENNETH W · 2019 to 2020
$941k
Novel Approaches to Capture, Sorting, and Characterization of CNS-Origin Extracellular VesiclesR21MH118164 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MACHAIRAKI, VASILIKI, WITWER, KENNETH W · 2018 to 2019
$471k
NCI NIH HHS UG3 CA241694NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI144997NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA040385NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA047807NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH118164NIMH NIH HHS R33 MH118164
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An important aspect in the development of extracellular vesicle (EV) therapeutics is identifying and quantifying the key features defining their identity, purity, sterility, potency and stability to ensure batch-to-batch reproducibility of their therapeutic efficacy. Apart from EV-inherent features, therapeutic efficacy depends on a variety of additional parameters, like dosing, frequency of application, and administration route, some of which can be addressed only in clinical trials. Before initiating clinical trials, EV-inherent features should be tested in well-standardized quantitative assays

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AnimalsExtracellular VesiclesHumansclinical translationdisease modelsorganoidspotencystandardization

Identifiers

PMID33708360
PMCPMC7890556

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