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Review
. 2021 Sep;6(3):483-495.
doi: 10.1136/svn-2020-000419. Epub 2021 Jan 11.

Therapeutic application of exosomes in ischaemic stroke

Yongfang Li  1 , Yaohui Tang  2 , Guo-Yuan Yang  3   2
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Review

Therapeutic application of exosomes in ischaemic stroke

Yongfang Li et al. Stroke Vasc Neurol. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Ischaemic stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability in the world, with limited effective treatments. Increasing evidence demonstrates that exosomes are involved in ischaemic pathology and exhibit restorative therapeutic effects by mediating cell-cell communication. The potential of exosome therapy for ischaemic stroke has been actively investigated in the past decade. In this review, we mainly discuss the current knowledge of therapeutic applications of exosomes from different cell types, different exosomal administration routes, and current advances of exosome tracking and targeting in ischaemic stroke. We also briefly summarised the pathology of ischaemic stroke, exosome biogenesis, exosome profile changes after stroke as well as registered clinical trials of exosome-based therapy.

Keywords: CT; MRI; bioactive; stroke.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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