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Tissues > Body Fluid Compartments > Extracellular Space > Extracellular Vesicles
Fluids and Secretions > Body Fluids > Body Fluid Compartments > Extracellular Space > Extracellular Vesicles
Cells > Cellular Structures > Extracellular Space > Extracellular Vesicles

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Extracellular Vesicles  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Apoptotic Bodies
  • Apoptotic Body
  • Bodies, Apoptotic
  • Body, Apoptotic
  • Exovesicle
  • Exovesicles

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2016

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000067128

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