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. 2017 Nov 10;6(1):1379835.
doi: 10.1080/20013078.2017.1379835. eCollection 2017.

Is your article EV-TRACKed?

Jan Van Deun  1   2 , An Hendrix  1   2 ; EV-TRACK consortium
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Is your article EV-TRACKed?

Jan Van Deun et al. J Extracell Vesicles. .

Abstract

The EV-TRACK knowledgebase is developed to cope with the need for transparency and rigour to increase reproducibility and facilitate standardization of extracellular vesicle (EV) research. The knowledgebase includes a checklist for authors and editors intended to improve the transparency of methodological aspects of EV experiments, allows queries and meta-analysis of EV experiments and keeps track of the current state of the art. Widespread implementation by the EV research community is key to its success.

Keywords: EV-TRACK; Exosomes; characterization; extracellular vesicles; isolation; microvesicles; reproducibility; standardization.

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Conflict of interest statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Impact of MISEV guidelines on EV research practice. Scatter plots of EV-METRICS from studies (a) published before versus after publication of MISEV, and (b) citing versus not citing MISEV. The horizontal bars indicate mean EV-METRICs. (c) Spider chart of adherence to individual components of the EV-METRIC for EV studies, stratified for citing or not citing MISEV guidelines.
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