Keck Graduate Institute, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Molecules. 2021 Jan 20;26(3):535. doi: 10.3390/molecules26030535.
As the fields of aging and neurological disease expand to liquid biopsies, there is a need to identify informative biomarkers for the diagnosis of neurodegeneration and other age-related disorders such as cancers. A means of high-throughput screening of biomolecules relevant to aging can facilitate this discovery in complex biofluids, such as blood. Exosomes, the smallest of extracellular vesicles, are found in many biofluids and, in recent years, have been found to be excellent candidates as liquid biopsy biomarkers due to their participation in intercellular communication and various pathologies such as cancer metastasis. Recently, exosomes have emerged as novel biomarkers for age-related diseases. Hence, the study of exosomes, their protein and genetic cargo can serve as early biomarkers for age-associated pathologies, especially neurodegenerative diseases. However, a disadvantage of exosome studies includes a lack in standardization of isolating, detecting, and profiling exosomes for downstream analysis. In this review, we will address current techniques for high-throughput isolation and detection of exosomes through various microfluidic and biosensing strategies and how they may be adapted for the detection of biomarkers of age-associated disorders.
随着衰老和神经疾病领域向液体活检扩展,需要识别有信息价值的生物标志物,用于诊断神经退行性变和其他与年龄相关的疾病,如癌症。一种高通量筛选与衰老相关的生物分子的方法可以促进在复杂的生物流体(如血液)中发现这种生物标志物。外泌体是最小的细胞外囊泡,存在于许多生物流体中,近年来由于它们参与细胞间通讯和各种病理学,如癌症转移,被发现是液体活检生物标志物的优秀候选物。最近,外泌体已成为与年龄相关疾病的新型生物标志物。因此,对外泌体及其蛋白质和遗传物质的研究可以作为与年龄相关病理,特别是神经退行性疾病的早期生物标志物。然而,外泌体研究的一个缺点是缺乏标准化的分离、检测和分析外泌体以进行下游分析。在这篇综述中,我们将讨论通过各种微流控和生物传感策略进行高通量外泌体分离和检测的当前技术,以及它们如何适应与年龄相关的疾病的生物标志物的检测。