• Extracellular vesicles as a source of prostate cancer biomarkers in liquid biopsies: a decade of research 

      Ramirez-Garrastacho, Manuel; Bajo-Santos, Cristina; Line, Aija; Martens-Uzunova, Elena S.; de la Fuente, Jesus Martinez; Moros, Maria; Soekmadji, Carolina; Tasken, Kristin Austlid; Llorente, Alicia (British Journal of Cancer;126 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-22)
      Prostate cancer is a global cancer burden and considerable effort has been made through the years to identify biomarkers for the disease. Approximately a decade ago, the potential of analysing extracellular vesicles in ...
    • Extracellular Vesicles as Novel Players in Kidney Disease 

      Blijdorp, Charles J.; Burger, Dylan; Llorente, Alicia; Martens-Uzunova, Elena S.; Erdbrügger, Uta (Journal of the American Society of Nephrology;Vol. 33, Issue 3, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-28)
      “Urine can provide us day by day, month by month, and year by year with a serial story of the major events within the kidney.” Dr. Thomas Addis, pioneer in renal physiology, came to this conclusion in 1948. The discovery ...
    • Potential of miRNAs in urinary extracellular vesicles for management of active surveillance in prostate cancer patients 

      Ramirez-Garrastacho, Manuel; Berge, Viktor; Linē, Aija; Llorente, Alicia (British Journal of Cancer;126 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-22)
      Background: Active surveillance is an alternative to radical treatment for patients with low-risk prostate cancer, which could also benefit some patients with intermediate risk. We have investigated the use of miRNA in ...
    • Urinary extracellular vesicles: A position paper by the Urine Task Force of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles 

      Llorente, Alicia; Erdbrügger, Uta; Blijdorp, Charles J; Martens-Uzunova, Elena S. (Journal of Extracellular Vesicles;Volume 10, Issue 7. May 2021 - e12093, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-21)
      Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast-growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles ...