Urinary Exosomes

National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute

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Abstract

In the past year, we have continued to focus on dissemination of information regarding human urinary exosomes and their use in biomarker discovery studies. This has been done through information provided on our NHLBI DIR website (esbl.nhlbi.nih.gov) We have also maintained our <i.Urinary Exosome Protein Database</i> (http://dir.nhlbi.nih.gov/papers/lkem/exosome/), which has been a useful resource for the renal research community. Research on urinary exosomes in the nephrology world has exploded. The PI has presented at an NIAID workshop on urinary exosomes. Our original paper (Pisitkun T, Shen RF, <b>Knepper MA</b>. Identification and proteomic profiling of exosomes in human urine. <i>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.</i> 2004 Sep 7;101(36):13368-73. Epub 2004 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 153262890) now has over 1171 citations on Google Scholar. Current work is limited to writing review articles on this topic and providing protocols and antibodies to laboratories interested in using urinary exosomes as a vehicle for biomarker discovery in various disease processes.