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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2021

Quantitative Nanomechanical Analysis of Small Extracellular Vesicles for Tumor Malignancy Indication.

Siyuan Ye, Wenzhe Li, Huayi Wang, Ling Zhu, Chen Wang, Yanlian Yang

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Siyuan YeCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
Wenzhe LiCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
Huayi WangCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
Ling ZhuCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0003-3818-6093
Chen WangCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0003-2306-9089
Yanlian YangCAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Key Laboratory of Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0003-4318-7672
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology · CNChina Pharmaceutical University · CNChinese Institute for Brain Research · CN

Funding

Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences QYZDJ-SSW-SLH048National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFA0205000National Natural Science Foundation of China 21773042National Natural Science Foundation of China 31971295National Natural Science Foundation of China 51861135103Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science XDB36000000Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Science 2018048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nanomechanical properties of tumor-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are essential to cancer progression. Here, nanoindentation is utilized on atomic force microscopy (AFM) to quantitatively investigate the nanomechanical properties of human breast cancer cell-derived sEVs at single vesicle level and explore their relationship with tumor malignancy and vesicle size. It is demonstrated that the stiffness of the sEVs results from the combined contribution of the bending modulus and osmotic pressure of the sEVs. The stiffness and osmotic pressure increase with increasing malignancy of the sEVs and decrease with increasing size of the sEVs. The bending modulus decreases with increasing malignancy of the sEVs and is lower in smaller sEVs. This study builds relationship between the nanomechanical signature of the sEV and tumor malignancy, adding information for better understanding cancer mechanobiology.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsCells, CulturedEvaluation Studies as TopicExtracellular VesiclesFemaleHumansNanomedicineatomic force microscopycancer mechanobiologyextracellular vesiclesnanoindentationnanomechanical propertytumor

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PMID34338437
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