Proteomic Analysis of Blood Extracellular Vesicles in Cardiovascular Disease by LC-MS/MS Analysis

Extracellular vesicles are membrane vesicles related to cell communication. These vesicles consist of proteins, RNA, and microRNA and are an interesting and important tool to understand the processes taking place in the secreting cell, especially in diseases in which its release is often enhanced. The used of blood extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular disease as a low invasive, easily accessible source of circulating markers could give us important information related to pathological process even more with the use of proteomic analysis. In this chapter, we describe a protocol to isolate and proteomic analyze extracellular vesicles from blood associated with cardiovascular disease.