ReviewCells2021
Extracellular Vesicles in Organ Fibrosis: Mechanisms, Therapies, and Diagnostics.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
- Role of extracellular matrix in liver fibrosis regression and regeneration (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Macrophage-Fibroblast Crosstalk in Kidney Injury: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Mechanobiological feedback loops and quantitative decision thresholds in organ fibrosis: Translational principles for antifibrotic therapy.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2026Review
- Extracellular Vesicles as Mediators of Pathophysiology and Disease Progression in Cardiovascular Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Exosomes as Disease-Informed Nanoplatforms for Pulmonary Fibrosis: From Pathogenic Signaling to Precision Diagnosis and Therapy.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- Apolipoproteins L involvement in immunity.Journal of human immunity · 2026Review
- Multi-parametric profiling of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles reveals a disease-associated molecular signature supporting a liquid biopsy approach in myelofibrosis.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Multiorgan repair by MSC-derived extracellular vesicles in hepatorenal syndrome through necroptosis alleviation, immune reprogramming and fibrosis resolution.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026Article
- The interplay between exosomal miRNAs and cytokine networks in metabolic diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Stem Cell and Exosome Therapy in Wound Healing: Traps, Paradoxes, and Tricks Transforming Paradigms.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Extracellular Vesicles Contribute to the Pathophysiology and Progression of Pleural Fibrosis by Promoting Mesothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Neoangiogenesis.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- The Use of Extracellular Vesicles as a Promising Therapeutic Approach for Pulmonary Diseases.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Delivery of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes into fibroblasts attenuates intestinal fibrosis by weakening its transdifferentiation via the CCN2-TGF-β axis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Actions of Hepatocyte Extracellular Vesicles in a Murine Model of Diet-Induced Steatohepatitis with Fibrosis.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- The Role of Bovine Milk-Derived Exosomes in Human Health and Disease.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Stroke-Induced Renal Dysfunction: Underlying Mechanisms and Challenges of the Brain-Kidney Axis.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Review
- What Is on the Horizon for Treatments in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Extracellular Vesicle-Derived Non-Coding RNAs: Key Mediators in Remodelling Heart Failure.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Review
- Fibroblast-derived extracellular vesicles contain SFRP1 and mediate pulmonary fibrosis.JCI insight · 2024Article
- The Metabolomic Footprint of Liver Fibrosis.Cells · 2024Review
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Abstract
Fibrosis is the unrelenting deposition of excessively large amounts of insoluble interstitial collagen due to profound matrigenic activities of wound-associated myofibroblasts during chronic injury in diverse tissues and organs. It is a highly debilitating pathology that affects millions of people globally and leads to decreased function of vital organs and increased risk of cancer and end-stage organ disease. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) produced within the chronic wound environment have emerged as important vehicles for conveying pro-fibrotic signals between many of the cell types involved in driving the fibrotic response. On the other hand, EVs from sources such as stem cells, uninjured parenchymal cells, and circulation have in vitro and in vivo anti-fibrotic activities that have provided novel and much-needed therapeutic options. Finally, EVs in body fluids of fibrotic individuals contain cargo components that may have utility as fibrosis biomarkers, which could circumvent current obstacles to fibrosis measurement in the clinic, allowing fibrosis stage, progression, or regression to be determined in a manner that is accurate, safe, minimally-invasive, and conducive to repetitive testing. This review highlights the rapid and recent progress in our understanding of EV-mediated fibrotic pathogenesis, anti-fibrotic therapy, and fibrosis staging in the lung, kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, and skin.
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