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The Advantages of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Drug Delivery Systems

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanosized particles, secreted by most, if not all cell types, enclosed by a bilayer phospholipid membrane, and mediate crucial intercellular communications by carrying and transporting many active biological molecules. These naturally occurred nanoparticles are emerging as a promising drug delivery system. In particular, EVs from mesenchymal stem cells (MSC-EVs) offer numerous advantages as drug delivery vehicles due to their unique features, as briefly reviewed below in Figure 1.

Xiubin Kuang1†, Jun Peng1†, Yingying Peng1 , Chen Huang2* and Zhengqiang Yuan1*