Cytokine-Laden Extracellular Vesicles Predict Patient Prognosis after Cerebrovascular Accident.
Anthony FringuelloPhilip D TatmanTadeusz H WroblewskiJohn A ThompsonXiaoli YuKevin O LilleheiRobert G KowalskiMichael W GranerPublished in: International journal of molecular sciences (2021)
These findings correlate plasma-derived EV cytokine content with detrimental outcomes after stroke, highlighting the potential for EVs to provide cytokines with a means of long-range delivery of inflammatory signals that perpetuate neuroinflammation after stroke, thus hindering recovery.