Eva Cernuda-Morollón

Dr. Eva Cernuda-Morollón


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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17 January 2019 in Bioengineering
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ESEsther Serrano-Pertierra
Esther Serrano-Pertierra
MOMyriam Oliveira-Rodríguez
Myriam Oliveira-Rodríguez
MRMontserrat Rivas
Montserrat Rivas
POPedro Oliva
Pedro Oliva
JVJavier Villafani
Javier Villafani
ECEva Cernuda-Morollón
Eva Cernuda-Morollón
Extracellular vesicles (EV) are small membrane structures released by cells that act as potent mediators of intercellular communication. The study of EV biology is important, not only to strengthen our knowledge of their physiological roles, but also to better understand their involvement in several diseases. In the field of biomedicine they have been studied as a novel source of biomarkers and drug delivery vehicles. The most commonly used method for EV enrichment in crude pellet involves serial centrifugation and ultracentrifugation. Recently, different protocols and techniques have been developed to isolate EV that imply less time and greater purification. Here we carry out a comparative analysis of three methods to enrich EV from plasma of healthy controls: ultracentrifugation, ExoQuickTM precipitation solution (System Biosciences), and Total Exosome Isolation kit (Invitrogen). Our results show that commercial precipitation reagents are more efficient and enable higher EV enrichment factors compared with traditional ultracentrifugation, although subsequent imaging analysis is not possible with some of them. We hope that this work will contribute to the current research on isolation techniques to assist the progress of clinical applications with diagnostic or therapeutic objectives.