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ArticlePloS one2024

A fast, easy, cost-free method to remove excess dye or drug from small extracellular vesicle solution.

Ioannis Isaioglou, Gloria Lopez-Madrigal, Jasmeen S Merzaban

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Ioannis IsaioglouBiological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Bioscience Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0269-6887
Gloria Lopez-MadrigalBiological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Bioscience Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0921-9175
Jasmeen S MerzabanBiological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Bioscience Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7276-2907

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tracking small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), such as exosomes, requires staining them with dyes that penetrate their lipid bilayer, a process that leaves excess dye that needs to be mopped up to achieve high specificity. Current methods to remove superfluous dye have limitations, among them that they are time-intensive, carry the risk of losing sample and can require specialized equipment and materials. Here we present a fast, easy-to-use, and cost-free protocol for cleaning excess dye from stained sEV samples by adding their parental cells to the mixture to absorb the extra dye much like sponges do. Since sEVs are considered a next-generation drug delivery system, we further show the success of our approach at removing excess chemotherapeutic drug, daunorubicin, from the sEV solution.

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Extracellular VesiclesColoring AgentsDaunorubicinHumansStaining and LabelingColoring AgentsDaunorubicin

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PMID38718025
PMCPMC11078409

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