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Exosomes are part of the heterogenous Extracellular vesicles which include:
Exosomes are 30-150nm in in size, which is 1000 times smaller than stem cells. They were discovered in 1983 and found to carry proteins, small RNA, cytokines, and growth factors within them.
Exosomes are formed by what is called an endosomal route. Think of a soap bubble, with a lot of “information” contained within it. Exosomes are released from cells by the soap bubble fusing to the cell membrane and then being released into the extracellular space.
The regulation of this process is not well understood. There has been a huge amount of interest in exosomes due to the following:
are cultured, and the byproduct is exosomes.
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