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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2023

Extracellular vesicles as a new horizon in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory eye diseases: A narrative review of the literature.

Azam Habibi, Zeinab Zarei-Behjani, Kimia Falamarzi, Mahdi Malekpour, Fatemeh Ebrahimi, Masood Soleimani, Mahmood Nejabat, Amir Khosravi, Zahra Moayedfard, Sara Pakbaz and 2 more

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Clinical Applications of Extracellular Vesicles: Promises and Pitfalls.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Azam HabibiDepartment of Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Zeinab Zarei-BehjaniDepartment of Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Kimia FalamarziStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mahdi MalekpourStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Fatemeh EbrahimiStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Masood SoleimaniDepartment of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Science, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mahmood NejabatDepartment of Ophthalmology School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Amir KhosraviDepartment of Ophthalmology School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Zahra MoayedfardDepartment of Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Sara PakbazDepartment of Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Niloofar Dehdari EbrahimiTransplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Negar AzarpiraTransplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles include exosomes, microvesicles, and apoptotic bodies. Their cargos contain a diverse variety of lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids that are involved in both normal physiology and pathology of the ocular system. Thus, studying extracellular vesicles may lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and even potential treatments for various diseases. The roles of extracellular vesicles in inflammatory eye disorders have been widely investigated in recent years. The term "inflammatory eye diseases" refers to a variety of eye conditions such as inflammation-related diseases, degenerative conditions with remarkable inflammatory components, neuropathy, and tumors. This study presents an overview of extracellular vesicles' and exosomes' pathogenic, diagnostic, and therapeutic values in inflammatory eye diseases, as well as existing and potential challenges.

Indexed as

Cell-Derived MicroparticlesExosomesExtracellular VesiclesEye DiseasesCell CommunicationHumansautoimmuneexosomeextracellular vesicleseyeinfectioninflammationmesenchymal stem cells

Identifiers

PMID36969177
PMCPMC10033955
OpenAlexW4323666708

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