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Noa B Martín-Cófreces1,2,3, Daniel Torralba4,5, Marta Lozano-Prieto4,5

  • 1Servicio de Inmunología. Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Madrid, Spain. noa.martin@salud.madrid.org.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|September 15, 2020
PubMed
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This study presents a new microscopy method to analyze the contents of individual extracellular vesicles (EVs). This technique allows for better visualization and selection of EVs with specific biological functions.

Keywords:
Cell-to-cell communicationExosomesExtracellular vesiclesImmune synapseMicroscopyT cellsTIRF

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