Therapeutic potential of EVs. (IMAGE)

First Hospital of Jilin University

Therapeutic potential of EVs.

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EVs can be used as therapeutical agent or delivery vehicles. As therapeutical agent, EVs are always from stem cells and they can attenuate hepatic inflammation, necrosis and oxidative stress and promote hepatocyte proliferation. As delivery vehicles, EVs loading drugs with genetic or chemical modification target liver to improve fibrosis. EVs, extracellular vesicles; HLSC, human liver stem cell; MSC, mesenchymal stem/stromal cell; PSC, pluripotent stem cell.

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By Yingying Liu and Lin Wang

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