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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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Pedersen, VK 2019, 'Men hvor gammelt er det?', Weekendavisen.
Hansen, BB 2019, 'Menneske fra sted', Dagbladet Information.
Schanz, H-J 2019, Menneskerettigheder. 2 edn, Lindhardt & Ringhof, København.
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Andersen, C, Kratschmer, AR, Clasen, M & Nielsen, TK 2019, Mennesket i biokulturelt perspektiv. in T Kellberg Nielsen, C Andersen, AR Kratschmer & M Clasen (eds), Menneske, kultur, evolution: et biokulturelt perspektiv. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus , pp. 11-32.
Hejná, M 2019, Menstrual cycle effects on phonatory aspects of sustained vowels: it’s also about the offset (but not the onset). in O Niebuhr, J Neitsch, S Berger, K Fischer, J Michalsky, S Eisenberger & M Jelínek (eds), Proceedings of the 1st International Seminar on the Foundation of Speech - Pausing, Breathing and Voice. 1 edn, Sciendo, pp. 36-37. <https://medialib.cmcdn.dk/medialibrary/80234312-1C55-406C-86A7-410099EB2739/28401F6C-3147-EC11-84AB-00155D0B0901.pdf>
Nielsen, S, Larsen, LB, Stec, K & Simon, A 2019, Mental Models of Loudspeaker Directivity. in Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound, AM 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, Nottingham, United Kingdom, pp. 260-263, Audio Mostly, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 18/09/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356633
Jones, MT, Percival, LME, Stokke, EW, Frieling, J, Mather, TA, Riber, L, Schubert, BA, Schultz, B, Tegner, C, Planke, S & Svensen, HH 2019, 'Mercury anomalies across the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum', Climate of the Past, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 217-236. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-217-2019
Schjødt, JP 2019, Mercury-Wotan-Ódhinn: one or many? in K Wikström af Edholm , P Jackson Rova, A Nordberg, O Sundqvist & T Zachrisson (eds), Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion : in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia. Stockholm University Press, Stockholm, Stockholm studies in comparative religion, no. 40, pp. 59-81. https://doi.org/10.16993/bay
Nissen, M, Raffnsøe, S & Staunæs, D 2019, Mere end en motiverende samtale: eksperimenter med motiverende æstetik. in K Kousholt, JB Krejsler & M Nissen (eds), At skulle ville – Om motivationsarbejde og motivationens tilblivelse og effekter. Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg, pp. 201-227.
Christensen, TS, Bülow, MW, Vejlstrup, K (ed.), Faber Timm, C, Brunvold, M, Reinholt Lerche, N & Finjord Højberg, T 2019, Merkantil fagdidaktik. Systime, Aarhus. <https://merkantilfagdidaktik.systime.dk/>
Hansen, BB 2019, 'Merværdi og overvågning', Dagbladet Information.
Temdee, P, Prasad, NR, Dlodlo, M, Lindgren, P & Chandra, A 2019, 'Message from Technical Program Committee', International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC, vol. 2018-November, 8712873, pp. xviii. https://doi.org/10.1109/WPMC.2018.8712873
Gabbard, JL, Grubert, J, Hu, S & Zollmann, S 2019, 'Message from the ISMAR 2018 science and technology program chairs', Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2019, pp. XVI-XVII. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2019.00007
Gabbard, JL, Grubert, J, Hu, S & Zollmann, S 2019, 'Message from the ISMAR 2019 science and technology program chairs and TVCG guest editors', Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2019, pp. XIV-XV. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2019.00006
Gabbard, JL, Grubert, J, Hu, S & Zollmann, S 2019, 'Message from the ISMAR 2019 Science and Technology Program Chairs and TVCG Guest Editors', IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 25, no. 11, 8855105, pp. 3050-3051. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934813
Lona-Durazo, F, Hernandez-Pacheco, N, Fan, S, Zhang, T, Choi, J, Kovacs, MA, Loftus, SK, Le, P, Edwards, M, Fortes-Lima, CA, Eng, C, Huntsman, S, Hu, D, Gómez-Cabezas, EJ, Marín-Padrón, LC, Grauholm, J, Mors, O, Burchard, EG, Norton, HL, Pavan, WJ, Brown, KM, Tishkoff, S, Pino-Yanes, M, Beleza, S, Marcheco-Teruel, B & Parra, EJ 2019, 'Meta-analysis of GWA studies provides new insights on the genetic architecture of skin pigmentation in recently admixed populations', BMC Genetics, vol. 20, no. 1, 59, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-019-0765-5
Albieri, V, Olesen, TB, Sand, FL, Rasmussen, CL, Toft, BG, Norrild, B, Munk, C & Kjaer, SK 2019, 'Meta-analysis of penile cancer: conceptual interpretations - Authors' reply', The Lancet Oncology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. e126. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30108-1
ElKhoury, M, Chenon, G, Griffiths, AD, Baudry, J & Eyer, K 2019, Metabolic characterization of individual IGG-secreting cells. in 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019. Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, pp. 22-23, 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019, Basel, Switzerland, 27/10/2019.
Laursen, TL, Siggard, CB, Kazankov, K, Sandahl, TD, Moller, HJ, Kristensen, LH, Tarp, B, Laursen, A & Gronbaek, H 2019, 'Metabolic liver function improves 12 weeks after successful sofosbuvir-based direct-acting antiviral therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease', International Liver Congress / 54th Annual Meeting of the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-the-Liver (EASL), Vienna, Austria, 10/04/2019 - 14/04/2019 pp. E738-E738.
Glock, N, Roy, AS, Romero, D, Wein, T, Weissenbach, J, Revsbech, NP, Høgslund, S, Clemens, D, Sommer, S & Dagan, T 2019, 'Metabolic preference of nitrate over oxygen as an electron acceptor in Foraminifera from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 116, no. 8, pp. 2860-2865. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813887116
Rinschen, MM, Palygin, O, Guijas, C, Palermo, A, Palacio-Escat, N, Domingo-Almenara, X, Montenegro-Burke, R, Saez-Rodriguez, J, Staruschenko, A & Siuzdak, G 2019, 'Metabolic rewiring of the hypertensive kidney', Science Signaling, vol. 12, no. 611, eaax9760. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.aax9760
Nascimento, GG, Leite, FRM, Peres, KG, Demarco, FF, Corrêa, MB & Peres, MA 2019, 'Metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: A structural equation modeling approach', Journal of Periodontology, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1002/JPER.18-0483
Nørgaard, HW & Vestergaard, C 2019, Metallurgiens oprindelse og udvikling. in O Høiris & PKA Jensen (eds), Evolutionens menneske og menneskets evolution. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, pp. 391-413.