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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: jieping yang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-50700 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Yang Jieping J Wei Fang F Schafer Christopher C Wong David T W DT
PloS one 20141114 11
The discovery of disease-specific biomarkers in oral fluids has revealed a new dimension in molecular diagnostics. Recent studies have reported the mechanistic involvement of tumor cells derived mediators, such as exosomes, in the development of saliva-based mRNA biomarkers. To further our understanding of the origins of disease-induced salivary biomarkers, we here evaluated the hypothesis that tumor-shed secretory lipidic vesicles called exosome-like microvesicles (ELMs) that serve as protectiv ...[more]