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ArticleSub-cellular biochemistry2021

Extracellular Vesicles in Neurological Disorders.

Alex Mazurskyy, Jason Howitt

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Article in Sub-cellular biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of extracellular vesicles in kidney disease progression.Kidney research and clinical practice · 2026
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  5. Prospects and challenges of tissue-derived extracellular vesicles.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  6. Extracellular Vesicles in Mental Disorders: A State-of-art Review.International journal of biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alex MazurskyySwinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia.
Jason HowittSwinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia. jhowitt@swin.edu.au.
Swinburne University of Technology · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the central nervous system, and in particular the brain, is a rapidly growing research area. Importantly, the role for EVs in the nervous system spans from early development through to old age, with EVs being associated with several different neurological disorders. To date, researchers have been studying the function of EVs in the nervous system in three major areas: (i) the role of EVs in promoting disease pathways, (ii) the ability of EVs to be used as a diagnostic tool to identify cellular changes in the nervous system, and (iii) the potential use of EVs as therapeutic tools for the delivery of biomolecules or drugs to the nervous system. In each of these settings the analysis and use of EVs performs a different function, highlighting the breadth of areas in which the EV field is applicable. A key aspect of EV biology is the ability of vesicles to cross biological barriers, in particular the blood brain barrier. This allows for the measurement of serum EVs that contain information about cells in the brain, or alternatively, allows for the delivery of biomolecules that are packaged within EVs for therapeutic use.

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Extracellular VesiclesNervous System DiseasesBlood-Brain BarrierBrainHumansAutism (ASD)Brain developmentExosomesGlioblastomaMental healthNeurodegeneration

Identifiers

PMID33779926
OpenAlexW3150574192

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