Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Exosome reporter mice reveal the involvement of exosomes in mediating neuron to astroglia communication in the CNS

  • Yuqin Men,
  • Julia Yelick,
  • Shijie Jin,
  • Yang Tian,
  • Ming Sum R. Chiang,
  • Haruki Higashimori,
  • Eoin Brown,
  • Rachel Jarvis,
  • Yongjie Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11534-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Our current understanding of exosome signaling among CNS cells is mostly limited to culture models. In this study, authors generated a new cell-type specific exosome reporter mouse line which allows the first in vivo investigation of the localization of neuronal exosomes in the CNS, and also potentially highlights the role of exosomally transferred miR-124-3p in mediating astroglial glutamate uptake function