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ReviewThe Journal of international medical research2025

Extracellular vesicles: their challenges and benefits as potential biomarkers for musculoskeletal disorders.

Soo-Eun Sung, Min-Soo Seo, Wook-Tae Park, Young-Ju Lim, Sangbum Park, Gun Woo Lee

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Review in The Journal of international medical research, 2025. 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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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Soo-Eun SungPreclinical Research Center, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation (K-MEDI hub), Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Min-Soo SeoDepartment of Veterinary Tissue Engineering, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Wook-Tae ParkDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Young-Ju LimDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Sangbum ParkDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Gun Woo LeeDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8441-0802

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early diagnosis and timely management are critical for determining disease outcomes and prognoses. To date, certain methods for developing disease-specific biomarkers have been reported; however, strategies for musculoskeletal disease-specific biomarker development have rarely been studied. Recent studies have highlighted the potential application of extracellular vesicles (EVs) as disease-specific biomarkers. EVs encapsulate proteins, lipids, messenger RNAs, and microRNAs derived from their cellular origin; these constituents remain stable within the EVs and can traverse the blood-brain barrier. Because of these distinctive characteristics, EVs have been actively investigated as diagnostic tools for various conditions, including cancer, inflammatory diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders. Although EVs have many advantages for biomarker development, they have not yet been fully researched in the context of musculoskeletal pathologies. The current review aimed to highlight the potential of EVs in the development of disease-specific biomarkers, summarize the processes of EV biomarkers, and discuss current limitations and future perspectives of EVs as biomarkers.

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BiomarkersExtracellular VesiclesMusculoskeletal DiseasesAnimalsHumansMicroRNAsBiomarkersMicroRNAsbiomarkerdevelopmentdiagnostic tooldiseaseExtracellular vesiclemusculoskeletal system

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PMID39973226
PMCPMC11840854

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