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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Soares AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4541155 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20150819
Intercellular communication is vital to ensure tissue and organism homeostasis and can occur directly, between neighbour cells via gap junctions (GJ), or indirectly, at longer distances, through extracellular vesicles, including exosomes. Exosomes, as intercellular carriers of messenger molecules, mediate the transfer of biological information between donor and acceptor cells. Although the biological effects of exosomes in target cells have been intensively studied, the mechanisms that govern ex ...[more]