High levels of exosomes expressing CD63 and caveolin-1 in plasma of melanoma patients.

High levels of exosomes expressing CD63 and caveolin-1 in plasma of melanoma patients.

BACKGROUND: Metastatic melanoma is an untreatable cancer lacking reliable and non-invasive markers of disease progression. Exosomes are small vesicles secreted by normal as well as tumor cells. Human tumor-derived exosomes are involved in malignant progression and we evaluated the presence of exosom...

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Main Authors: Mariantonia Logozzi, Angelo De Milito, Luana Lugini, Martina Borghi, Luana Calabrò, Massimo Spada, Maurizio Perdicchio, Maria Lucia Marino, Cristina Federici, Elisabetta Iessi, Daria Brambilla, Giulietta Venturi, Francesco Lozupone, Mario Santinami, Veronica Huber, Michele Maio, Licia Rivoltini, Stefano Fais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2667632?pdf=render

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