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Extracellular Vesicles

"Extracellular Vesicles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Membrane limited structures derived from cell membranes and cytoplasmic material, and released into EXTRACELLULAR SPACE. They circulate through the EXTRACELLULAR FLUID and through the peripheral blood in the MICROVASCULATURE where cells, much larger, cannot, thereby affecting a variety of intercellular communication processes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Extracellular Vesicles" by people in this website by year, and whether "Extracellular Vesicles" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2021 and 2023
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