
Extracellular Vesicle Core
What We do
The Extracellular Vesicle (EV) Core Facility provides comprehensive or selected services in the necessary isolation, quantification and characterization of EVs.
About Us
Isolation of EV is based on size exclusion using high-performance liquid chromatography (SEC-HPLC; Agilent) or gravity fed columns (coupled with an automatic fraction collector (Izon), ultracentrifugation, and/or density gradient ultracentrifugation. We can accurately characterize EV particle size distribution and concentration using resistive pulse sensing techniques (nCS1, Spectradyne, LLC) and/or Nanoparticle tracking analysis. Immunophenotype can be accomplished using nanoscale flow cytometry (NanoFCM) and/or chip array (ExoViewTM) techniques (Unchained Labs).
Additionally, we provide services in training and education for individuals and lab groups in all methods above and study design consultation to ensure that your EV work is of the highest quality and prepared for high impact publication in this exciting and rapidly growing field.
Services
Our service offers expertise in the following, the nCS1 by Spectradyne, Ultracentrifugation (UC) for Extracellular Vesicle Isolation, ExoView Chip Array by Unchained Labs, Consultation, 1260 HPLC, NanoFCM for EV analysis by Flow Cytometry, and ZetaView by ParticleMetrix are all advanced tools and services used in the field of extracellular vesicle research and analysis.
Requesting Service
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Publications
La Salvia S, Musante L, Lannigan J, Gigliotti JC, Le TH, Erdbrügger U. T cell-derived extracellular vesicles are elevated in essential HTN. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 319:F868-F875, 2020
Musante L, Bontha SV, La Salvia S, Fernandez-Piñeros A, Lannigan J, Le TH, Mas V, Erdbrügger U. Rigorous characterization of urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) in the low centrifugation pellet – a neglected source for uEVs. Sci Rep. 28:3701, 2020
Good ME, Musante L, La Salvia S, Howell NL, Carey RM, Le TH, Isakson BE, Erdbrügger U. Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Normotension Restrain Vasodilation in Resistance Arteries. Hypertension. 75:218-228, 2020
Musante L, Tataruch-Weinert D, Kerjaschki D, Henry M, Meleady P, Holthofer H. Residual urinary extracellular vesicles in ultracentrifugation supernatants after hydrostatic filtration dialysis enrichment. J Extracell Vesicles. 6:1267896, 2017
Tataruch-Weinert D, Musante L, Kretz O, Holthofer H. Urinary extracellular vesicles for RNA extraction: optimization of a protocol devoid of prokaryote contamination. J Extracell Vesicles. 5:30281, 2016
Musante L, Tataruch D, Gu D, Liu X, Forsblom C, Groop PH, Holthofer H. Proteases and protease inhibitors of urinary extracellular vesicles in diabetic nephropathy. J Diabetes Res. 2015:289734, 2015
Musante L, Tataruch D, Gu D, Benito-Martin A, Calzaferri G, Aherne S, Holthofer H. A simplified method to recover urinary vesicles for clinical applications, and sample banking. Sci Rep. 23; 4:7532, 2014
Borel, F., Sun, H., Zieger, M., Cox, A., Cardozo, B., Li, W., Oliveira, G., Davis, A., Gruntman, A., Flotte, T. R., Brodsky, M. H., Hoffman, A. M., Elmallah, M. K., Mueller, C. Editing out five Serpina1 paralogs to create a mouse model of genetic emphysema. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115: 2788-2793, 2018.
Yang, V. K., Tai, A. K., Huh, T. P., Meola, D. M., Juhr, C. M., Robinson, N. A., Hoffman, A. M. Dysregulation of valvular interstitial cell let-7c, miR-17, miR-20a, and miR-30d in naturally occurring canine myxomatous mitral valve disease. PLoS One 13: e0188617, 2018.
Davis, A. M., Thane, K. E., Hoffman, A. M. Practical methods for assessing emphysema severity based on estimation of linear mean intercept (lm) in the context of animal models of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Methods Mol Biol 1639: 93-106, 2017.
Yang, V. K., Loughran, K. A., Meola, D. M., Juhr, C. M., Thane, K. E., Davis, A. M., Hoffman, A. M. Circulating exosome microRNA associated with heart failure secondary to myxomatous mitral valve disease in a naturally occurring canine model. J Extracell Vesicles 6: 1350088, 2017.
Wichtel M, Gomez D, Burton S, Wichtel J, Hoffman AM. Relationships between equine airway reactivity measured by flowmetric plethysmography and specific indicators of airway inflammation in horses with suspected inflammatory airway disease. Equine Vet J 48: 466-71, 2016.
Platz, J., Bonenfant, N. R., Uhl, F. E., Coffey, A. L., McKnight, T., Parsons, C., Sokocevic, D., Borg, Z. D., Lam, Y. W., Deng, B., Fields, J. G., DeSarno, M., Loi, R., Hoffman, A. M., Bianchi, J., Dacken, B., Petersen, T., Wagner, D. E., Weiss, D. J.Comparative decellularization and recellularization of wild-type and alpha 1,3 galactosyltransferase knockout pig lungs: A model for ex vivo xenogeneic lung bioengineering and transplantation. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 22: 725-39, 2016.
Bellas, E., Rollins, A., Moreau, J. E., Lo, T., Quinn, K. P., Fourligas, N., Georgakoudi, I., Leisk, G. G., Mazan, M., Thane, K. E., Taeymans, O., Hoffman, A. M., Kaplan, D. L., Kirker-Head, C. A. Equine model for soft-tissue regeneration. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 103: 1217-1227, 2015.
Houtsma, A., Bedenice, D., Pusterla, N., Pugliese, B., Mapes, S., Hoffman, A. M., Paxson, J., Rozanski, E., Mukherjee, J., Wigley, M., Mazan, M. R. Association between inflammatory airway disease of horses and exposure to respiratory viruses: a case control study. Multidiscip Respir Med 10: 33, 2015.
Cruz, F. F., Borg, Z. D., Goodwin, M., Sokocevic, D., Wagner, D. E., Coffey, A., Antunes, M., Robinson, K. L., Mitsialis, S. A., Kourembanas, S., Thane, K., Hoffman, A. M., McKenna, D. H., Rocco, P. R., Weiss, D. J. Systemic administration of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell extracellular vesicles ameliorates aspergillus hyphal extract-induced allergic airway inflammation in immunocompetent mice. Stem Cells Transl Med 4: 1302-16, 2015.
Rettmer, H., Hoffman, A. M., Lanz, S., Oertly, M., Gerber, V. Owner-reported coughing and nasal discharge are associated with clinical findings, arterial oxygen tension, mucus score and bronchoprovocation in horses with recurrent airway obstruction in a field setting. Equine Vet J 47: 291-5, 2015.

Director, Extracellular Vesicles Core
Luca Musante, PhD

Principal Investigator
Andrew M. Hoffman, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM
Gilbert S. Kahn Dean
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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Find Us
University of Pennsylvania
School of Veterinary Medicine
3800 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4539