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Table 3 Tissue origin of extracellular vesicles and techniques used for labeling

From: Extracellular vesicles through the blood–brain barrier: a review

Author

Organ of origin

Cell line

Labeling

Result

Morad et al

Breast cancer

MDA-MB-231

Gaussia luciferase; TdTomato

EVs crossed monolayer

Tominaga et al

Breast cancer

MDA-MB-231-luc-D3H1 and MDA-MB-231-luc-D3H2LN

PKH67; PKH26; DiR

Detected in endothelium but not pericytes or astrocytes

Chen et al

Embryonic kidney

HEK 293 T cells

Gaussia luciferase fused with lactadherin; PKH67; PKH26

Crossed only with TNF-α treatment

Matsumoto et al

Parkinson´s disease and healthy control RBC

Human erythrocytes

Na125I; Na131I; Dil

Crossed only with LPS treatment

Kuroda et al

Melanoma

SK-Mel-28

PKH67

Successful incorporation but not crossing of the endothelium

  1. RBC red blood cells, EVs extracellular vesicles, TNF-α tumor necrosis factor alpha, LPS lipopolysaccharide