Extracellular Vesicle

Preferred Label : Extracellular Vesicle;

NCIt synonyms : Plasma Extracellular Vesicle;

NCIt definition : Bilayer membrane fragments present in the blood plasma that are released by different cell types upon activation or death. Extracellular vesicles are usually classified as either exosomes (formed by the membranes of intracellular compartments, 50-100 nm in diameter) and ectosomes (also called microparticles or microvesicles, formed from plasma membrane, 100-1000 nm in diameter).;

Details

Origin ID

C153165;

UMLS CUI

C3894683;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Cell [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Extracellular Vesicles [MeSH Descriptor]
- Extracellular Vesicles [MeSH concept]
- extracellular vesicle [GO term]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Extracellular Vesicles [MeSH Descriptor]
- extracellular vesicle [GO term]

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