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Letter to the editor regarding “Dietary bovine milk miRNAs transported in extracellular vesicles are partially stable during GI digestion, are bioavailable and reach target tissues but need a minimum dose to impact on gene expression”

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany

    Bodo C. Melnik

  2. Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Ralf Weiskirchen

  3. Medical Center Baden-Baden, Praxis for Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Beethovenstraße 2, 76530, Baden-Baden, Germany

    Wolfgang Stremmel

  4. Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Regensburg, University of Regensburg, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Gerd Schmitz

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A reply to this letter can be read here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-022-02816-z.

This letter refers to the original publication available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02720-y.

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Melnik, B.C., Weiskirchen, R., Stremmel, W. et al. Letter to the editor regarding “Dietary bovine milk miRNAs transported in extracellular vesicles are partially stable during GI digestion, are bioavailable and reach target tissues but need a minimum dose to impact on gene expression”. Eur J Nutr 61, 1695–1696 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-022-02817-y

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