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Exosomes

Exosomes are small membrane vesicles of endocytic origin secreted by most cell types in vitro. Cells continuously secrete a large number of microvesicles, exosomes and small molecules into the extracellular space. Exosomes have been shown to contain mRNA and miRNA and they are able to mediate communication between cells, by transport of RNA and proteins which can be functionalized in the recipient cell. The ability to transport bioactive cargoes, gives exosomes innate therapeutic potential as a natural drug carrier. Efficient techniques for loading drugs into exosomes to utilize the natural carrier capabilities of these vesicles remains to be elucidated.

Applications of Exosomes

The presence exosomes in blood, saliva, and urine paves the way for the possible application of exosomes as a diagnostic marker for diseases. Many diseases are difficult to detect by the methods and equipment available today and there is a growing demand for development of new non‐invasive methods to detect diseases in early stages. The use of exosomes as markers of disease is being investigated to cement their potential as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for early detection of many diseases, in particular cancers. This, however, relies on thorough characterisation of exosomes in both healthy and diseased states

An important factor to understanding the roles of exosomes is knowledge of their biodistribution. Currently, the number of publications describing the biodistribution of exosomes is limited. The main reason being the lack of a robust fluorescent label that can be visualised in vivo. Mapping the specific cell type derived exosomes can increase our knowledge on the roles of exosomes in the organism, as well as help to identify natural targeting systems.

Isolation, Characterisation and Fluorescent Labelling

The most common isolation protocol uses a differential centrifugation to fractionate cells, microvesicles, and exosomes, which are pelleted by ultracentrifugation. After vesicles are secreted from cells into the extracellular environment, it difficult to separate the different subpopulations of vesicles to obtain a pure sample. We have developed methods to optimise isolation and thorough characterisation procedures to obtain pure and well-characterised exosomes. Furthermore, we have developed a simple method for labelling of exosomes with a robust fluorescent label that can be visualised in vivo, allowing investigation of the biodistribution of different cell derived exosomes.

Collaborators:

Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Dan Peer, Department of Cell Research & Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Moein Moghimi, school of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK

Recent Publications

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Chahine, A 2019, 'Looking for Mr. Right Now', Anthropology News, vol. 60, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.1071
Ramirez Gomez, A & Gellersen, H 2019, Looking Outside the Box: Reflecting on Gaze Interaction in Gameplay. in CHI PLAY 2019 - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. pp. 625-637. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311350.3347150
Klausen, KC, Pagels, KØ, Bjerre, J (ed.) & Pedersen, CF (ed.) 2019, LoRa and LoRaWAN Case Studies. European Regional Development Fund and Central Denmark Region, Aarhus.
Knudsen, MB, Kæseler, SA & Rohde, J 2019, LoRaWAN End-Device Antenna Performance. in CEMi 2018 - International Workshop on Computing, Electromagnetics, and Machine Intelligence., 8610536, IEEE, pp. 77-78, IEEE CEMi'18, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 21/11/2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEMI.2018.8610536
Voigt, SW, Klemmensen, R & Serritzlew, S 2019, 'Losers Lose more than Winners Win: Asymmetrical Effects of Winning and Losing in Elections', European Journal of Political Research, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 1172-1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12329
Vestergaard, R, Zhang, Q & Lucani Rötter, DE 2019, Lossless Compression of Time Series Data with Generalized Deduplication. in 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2019 - Proceedings., 9013957, IEEE, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States, 09/12/2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013957
Sørensen, MP, Young, M & Pedersen, PB 2019, Lost in transition? on the migration to English language research publications. in MP Sørensen, L Geschwind, J Kekäle & R Pinheiro (eds), The responsible university: exploring the Nordic context and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 87-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25646-3_4
Kenter, JO, Raymond, CM, van Riper, CJ, Azzopardi, E, Brear, MR, Calcagni, F, Christie, I, Christie, M, Fordham, A, Gould, RK, Ives, CD, Hejnowicz, AP, Gunton, R, Horcea-Milcu, A-I, Kendal, D, Kronenberg, J, Massenberg, JR, O'Connor, S, Ravenscroft, N, Rawluk, A, Raymond, IJ, Rodríguez-Morales, J & Thankappan, S 2019, 'Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability', Sustainability science, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1439-1461.
Karstoft, S 2019, Lov om forsikringsformidling. in Karnovs lovsamling. 2019 edn, Karnov Group. <https://pro.karnovgroup.dk/document/7000840170/1>
Fanourakis, D, Gebraegziabher, HG, Hyldgaard, BN, Bouranis, D, Körner, O & Ottosen, C-O 2019, 'Low air humidity during growth promotes stomatal closure ability in rose', European Journal of Horticultural Science, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 245-252. https://doi.org/10.17660/eJHS.2019/84.4.7
Mallonn, M, Köhler, J, Alexoudi, X, Von Essen, C, Granzer, T, Poppenhaeger, K & Strassmeier, KG 2019, 'Low albedos of hot to ultra-hot Jupiters in the optical to near-infrared transition regime', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 624, A62. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935079
Tolborg, K 2019, 'Low barrier hydrogen bonds in negative thermal expansion material H3Co(CN)6', Danscatt 2019, Aarhus, Denmark, 23/05/2019 - 24/05/2019.
Bøge Frederickson, L, Petersen-Sonn, EA, Shen, Y, Hertel, O, Hong, Y, Schmidt, J & Johnson, MS 2019, Low-cost sensors for indoor and outdoor pollution. in RA Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology. Springer, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_1084-1
Farhadi, A, Hajiaghayi, MT, Larsen, KG & Shi, E 2019, Lower bounds for external memory integer sorting via network coding. in M Charikar & E Cohen (eds), STOC 2019 - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, A C M Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Annual Proceedings, pp. 997-1008, 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2019, Phoenix, United States, 23/06/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313276.3316337
Jacob, R, Larsen, KG & Nielsen, JB 2019, Lower Bounds for Oblivious Data Structures. in TM Chan (ed.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, pp. 2439-2447, Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, San Diego, California, United States, 06/01/2019. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975482.149
Vasseur, R, Boivin, S, Lathuilière, B, Lazar, I, Durlet, C, Martindale, RC, Bodin, S & Elhmidi, K 2019, 'Lower Jurassic corals from Morocco with skeletal structures convergent with those of Paleozoic rugosan corals', Palaeontologia Electronica, vol. 22, no. 2, 22.2.48A. https://doi.org/10.26879/874
Nielsen, MS 2019, Low frequency estimation of Lévy-driven moving averages. in ITISE 2019 International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting: Proceedings of Papers. pp. 104-114, International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2019, Granada, Spain, 25/09/2019. <https://itise.ugr.es/ITISE2019_Vol1.pdf>
Shreya, S 2019, 'Low Restoration-Energy Differential Spin Hall Effect MRAM for High-Speed Nonvolatile SRAM Application', 20th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (, California, United States, 06/03/2019 - 07/03/2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2019.8697426
Saheem, W, Brewster, C & Lauring, J 2019, 'Low status expatriates', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 321-324. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-12-2019-074
Hathwar, VR, Nakamura, A, Kasai, H, Suekuni, K, Tanaka, HI, Takabatake, T, Iversen, BB & Nishibori, E 2019, 'Low-Temperature Structural Phase Transitions in Thermoelectric Tetrahedrite, Cu12Sb4S13, and Tennantite, Cu12As4S13', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 3979-3988. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00385
van der Meer, QHA, Scott, JM, Serre, SH, Whitehouse, MJ, Kristoffersen, M, Le Roux, PJ & Pope, EC 2019, 'Low-δ 18 O zircon xenocrysts in alkaline basalts; a window into the complex carbonatite-metasomatic history of the Zealandia lithospheric mantle', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 254, pp. 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.029
Hasman, H, Clausen, PTLC, Kaya, H, Hansen, F, Knudsen, JD, Wang, M, Holzknecht, BJ, Samulioniené, J, Røder, BL, Frimodt-Møller, N, Lund, O & Hammerum, AM 2019, 'LRE-Finder, a Web tool for detection of the 23S rRNA mutations and the optrA, cfr, cfr(B) and poxtA genes encoding linezolid resistance in enterococci from whole-genome sequences', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1473-1476. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkz092
Nielsen, KH 2019, 'Lsd', Weekendavisen, vol. Sektion 4 (Ideer), pp. 10.
Jensen, SS, Winther, M & Løfstrøm, P 2019, 'Luftforurening fra krydstogtskibe i Københavns Havn og Aarhus havn', Trafikdage på Aalborg Universitet 2019, Aalborg, Denmark, 26/08/2019 - 27/08/2019.
Ellermann, T 2019, 'Luftforureningsniveauer i Danmark', Sundhedsstyrelsens Rådgivende Videnskabelige Udvalg for Miljø og Sundhed, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12/06/2019.
Constantin, D, Veres, D, Panaiotu, C, Anechitei-Deacu, V, Groza, SM, Begy, R, Kelemen, S, Buylaert, JP, Hambach, U, Marković, SB, Gerasimenko, N & Timar-Gabor, A 2019, 'Luminescence age constraints on the Pleistocene-Holocene transition recorded in loess sequences across SE Europe', Quaternary Geochronology, vol. 49, no. February, pp. 71-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.07.011