Sarai Pacheco

Introduction Extracellular vesicles (EV) are a family of membrane-encapsulated particles that are secreted by all eukaryotic cell types and are present in all major biofluids. EVs are typified by their carriage of a variety of bioactive molecular cargoes (e.g. nucleic acids, peptides and metabolites) that can be delivered to proximally- or distally located recipient cells and exert bioactive effects (van Niel et al., 2018; Yáñez-Mó et al., 2015).