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Salivary extracellular vesicles isolation methods impact the robustness of downstream biomarkers detection.
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- Exercise and Skeletal Muscle-Derived Extracellular Vesicles: Their Cargo, Release, and Role in Metabolic Regulation.Journal of extracellular biology · 2026Review
- Astrocytic EAAT1 suppression by EV-ACLY underlies glutamate imbalance and cognitive impairment in POCD.Communications biology · 2026Article
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- Clinical Validation of α-Synuclein in Salivary Extracellular Vesicles as a Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease: A Longitudinal Study.European journal of neurology · 2026Article
- From biogenesis to host modulation: the expanding biology of oral streptococcal membrane vesicles.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Comparison of extracellular vesicle isolation methods reveals method-dependent protein and miRNA profiles in saliva.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026Article
- Quantification of EV-associated miRNA in liquid biopsies for biomarker signature development.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026Review
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- Extracellular vesicle-associated transcriptomic and proteomic biomarkers show in vitro potential for vandetanib treatment monitoring in anaplastic thyroid cancer.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Salivary Extracellular Vesicles Separation: Analysis of Ultracentrifugation-Based Protocols.Oral diseases · 2025Article
- Recent advances in aptamer-based biosensing technology for isolation and detection of extracellular vesicles.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), crucial mediators in cell-to-cell communication, are implicated in both homeostatic and pathological processes. Their detectability in easily accessible peripheral fluids like saliva positions them as promising candidates for non-invasive biomarker discovery. However, the lack of standardized methods for salivary EVs isolation greatly limits our ability to study them. Therefore, we rigorously compared salivary EVs isolated using two scalable techniques-co-precipitation and immuno-affinity-against the long-established but labor-intensive ultracentrifugation method. Employing Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM), Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, Western blots (WB), and proteomics, we identified significant method-dependent variances in the size, concentration, and protein content of EVs. Importantly, our study uniquely demonstrates the ability of EV isolation to detect specific biomarkers that remain undetected in whole saliva by WB. RT-qPCR analysis targeting six miRNAs confirmed a consistent enrichment of these miRNAs in EV-derived cargo across all three isolation methods. We also found that pre-filtering saliva samples with 0.22 or 0.45 µm pores adversely affects subsequent analyses. Our findings highlight the untapped potential of salivary EVs in diagnostics and advocate for the co-precipitation method as an efficient, cost-effective, and clinically relevant approach for small-volume saliva samples. This work not only sheds light on a neglected source of EVs but also paves the way for their application in routine clinical diagnostics.
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