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SynthesisJournal of extracellular vesicles2023

MIBlood-EV: Minimal information to enhance the quality and reproducibility of blood extracellular vesicle research.

Fabrice Lucien, Dakota Gustafson, Metka Lenassi, Bo Li, Jacob J Teske, Eric Boilard, Katharina Clemm von Hohenberg, Juan Manual Falcón-Perez, Alice Gualerzi, Antonia Reale and 12 more

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Synthesis in Journal of extracellular vesicles, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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110citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

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

110 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Systematic review of changes in extracellular vesicles associated with obstructive sleep apnoea: implications for diagnosis and treatment.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  15. Measurement of extracellular vesicles using flow cytometry: friend or foe?Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Fabrice LucienDepartment of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6149-345X
Dakota GustafsonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Metka LenassiInstitute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-6855
Bo LiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Jacob J TeskeDepartment of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Eric BoilardCentre de Recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Département de microbiologie et immunologie, Faculté de Médecine de l'Université Laval, Québec, Quebec, Canada.
Katharina Clemm von HohenbergTranslational Lymphoma Research Group, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany.
Juan Manual Falcón-PerezExosomes laboratory and Metabolomics Platform, CIC bioGUNE-BRTA, Derio, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3133-0670
Alice GualerziIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2996-5714
Antonia RealeDivision of Blood Cancers, Monash University - Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jennifer C JonesLaboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Cecilia LässerKrefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Charlotte LawsonComparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK.
Irina NazarenkoInstitute for Infection Prevention and Control, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2633-1161
Lorraine O'DriscollSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences & Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute & Trinity St. James's Cancer Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Ryan PinkFaculty Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7501-558X
Pia R-M SiljanderEV-group, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Drug Research Program, Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-5821
Carolina SoekmadjiSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
An HendrixLaboratory of Experimental Cancer Research, Department of Human Structure and Repair, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Joshua A WelshSchool of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, and Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1097-9756
Kenneth W WitwerSchool of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, and Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1664-4233
Rienk NieuwlandLaboratory of Experimental Clinical Chemistry, and Amsterdam Vesicle Center, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5671-3400

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood is the most commonly used body fluid for extracellular vesicle (EV) research. The composition of a blood sample and its derivatives (i.e., plasma and serum) are not only donor-dependent but also influenced by collection and preparation protocols. Since there are hundreds of pre-analytical protocols and over forty variables, the development of standard operating procedures for EV research is very challenging. To improve the reproducibility of blood EV research, the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Blood EV Task Force proposes standardized reporting of (i) the applied blood collection and preparation protocol and (ii) the quality of the prepared plasma and serum samples. Gathering detailed information will provide insight into the performance of the protocols and more effectively identify potential confounders in the prepared plasma and serum samples. To collect this information, the ISEV Blood EV Task Force created the Minimal Information for Blood EV research (MIBlood-EV), a tool to record and report information about pre-analytical protocols used for plasma and serum preparation as well as assays used to assess the quality of these preparations. This tool does not require modifications of established local pre-analytical protocols and can be easily implemented to enhance existing databases thereby enabling evidence-based optimization of pre-analytical protocols through meta-analysis. Taken together, insight into the quality of prepared plasma and serum samples will (i) improve the quality of biobanks for EV research, (ii) guide the exchange of plasma and serum samples between biobanks and laboratories, (iii) facilitate inter-laboratory comparative EV studies, and (iv) improve the peer review process.

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Body FluidsExtracellular VesiclesPlasmaReproducibility of Resultsbiomarkerbloodextracellular vesiclesliquid biopsyquality controlreproducibilitystandardization

Identifiers

PMID38063210
PMCPMC10704543

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