The 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan

Chairperson:Naoto Shimada(FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation)

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, play an important role as communication tools between cells and are involved in various diseases such as cancer, inflammatory diseases, and neurological diseases. The properties of EVs and their inclusions (nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, etc.) differ depending on the tissues and cells that secrete them, and attempts are being made to use EVs and their inclusions in body fluid samples as biomarkers to diagnose diseases. In this seminar, we will introduce examples of analysis of tissue-specific EVs in blood samples under the title of “Characterization of extracellular vesicle subpopulations from tissues in blood”.