Using exosomes, naturally-equipped nanocarriers, for drug delivery

EV Batrakova, MS Kim - Journal of Controlled Release, 2015 - Elsevier
Exosomes offer distinct advantages that uniquely position them as highly effective drug
carriers. Comprised of cellular membranes with multiple adhesive proteins on their surface …

Focus on extracellular vesicles: physiological role and signalling properties of extracellular membrane vesicles

N Iraci, T Leonardi, F Gessler, B Vega… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a heterogeneous population of secreted membrane
vesicles, with distinct biogenesis routes, biophysical properties and different functions both …

MicroRNA-based therapeutics in central nervous system injuries

P Sun, DZ Liu, GC Jickling… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Central nervous system (CNS) injuries, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and
spinal cord injury (SCI), are important causes of death and long-term disability worldwide …

Exosomes/miRNAs as mediating cell-based therapy of stroke

H Xin, Y Li, M Chopp - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Cell-based therapy, eg, multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) treatment, shows
promise for the treatment of various diseases. The strong paracrine capacity of these cells …

MicroRNA: relevance to stroke diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy

H Mirzaei, F Momeni, L Saadatpour… - Journal of cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stroke is a life‐threatening disease that accounts for a considerable burden of mortality in
both developing and developed world. Identification of specific biomarkers for stroke and its …

Extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics: preclinical and clinical investigations

NL Klyachko, CJ Arzt, SM Li, OA Gololobova… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drug nanoformulations hold remarkable promise for the efficient delivery of therapeutics to a
disease site. Unfortunately, artificial nanocarriers, mostly liposomes and polymeric …

Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicle-based therapies protect against coupled degeneration of the central nervous and vascular systems in stroke

A Rahmani, K Saleki, N Javanmehr… - Ageing research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stem cell-based treatments have been suggested as promising candidates for stroke.
Recently, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been reported as potential therapeutics for …

Long noncoding RNA FosDT promotes ischemic brain injury by interacting with REST-associated chromatin-modifying proteins

SL Mehta, TH Kim, R Vemuganti - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Ischemia induces extensive temporal changes in cerebral transcriptome that influences the
neurologic outcome after stroke. In addition to protein-coding RNAs, many classes of …

The microRNA miR-7a-5p ameliorates ischemic brain damage by repressing α-synuclein

TH Kim, SL Mehta, KC Morris-Blanco, AK Chokkalla… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Ischemic stroke, which is caused by a clot that blocks blood flow to the brain, can be
severely disabling and sometimes fatal. We previously showed that transient focal ischemia …

MicroRNAs in central nervous system diseases: a prospective role in regulating blood-brain barrier integrity

F Ma, X Zhang, KJ Yin - Experimental neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Given the essential role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in the central nervous system
(CNS), cumulative investigations have been performed to elucidate how modulation of BBB …