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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

Isolation and Characterization of Salivary Exosomes for Cancer Biomarker Discovery.

Lucas Trevisan França de Lima, Juliana Müller Bark, Mohammad Rasheduzzaman, Chameera Ekanayake Weeramange, Chamindie Punyadeera

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Lucas Trevisan França de Lima *Queensland University of Technology, The School of Biomedical Sciences, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia.
Juliana Müller Bark *Queensland University of Technology, The School of Biomedical Sciences, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia.
Mohammad RasheduzzamanQueensland University of Technology, The School of Biomedical Sciences, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia.
Chameera Ekanayake WeeramangeQueensland University of Technology, The School of Biomedical Sciences, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia.
Chamindie PunyadeeraQueensland University of Technology, The School of Biomedical Sciences, Saliva and Liquid Biopsy Translational Laboratory, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia. chamindie.punyadeera@qut.edu.au.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exosomes are small extracellular vesicles secreted by cells and are known to play a key role in intercellular communication. Several studies have associated exosomes with various roles in tumorigenesis and explored their potential as a source of biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis in cancer research. Exosomes can be isolated from several body fluids, including those that are noninvasively accessible, such as human saliva. This book chapter provides a step-by-step detailed description of techniques that are used for the isolation, quantification, and characterization of exosomes from saliva. These include ultracentrifugation for the isolation, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and western blot (WB) for characterization of exosomes. The NTA approach explores the Brownian motion and light scattering of particles to predict size and concentration. TEM enables visualization of the exosomes which often present a cup-shaped morphology. Western blot is used to detect commonly expressed exosome-associated proteins. Finally, salivary exosomes isolated using these protocols can further be characterized for downstream analysis according to their cargo (proteins, DNA, RNA, miRNA) and utilized for cancer biomarker discovery.

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ExosomesMicroRNAsNeoplasmsSalivaBiomarkers, TumorBlotting, WesternHumansProteinsUltracentrifugationBiomarkers, TumorMicroRNAsProteinsBiomarkerCancerExosomesSalivaUltracentrifugation

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