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Exosomes: The Crucial Element in Prostate Cancer

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Role of Exosomes in Biological Communication Systems

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Exosomes are ubiquitous nanovesicles considered as biological body language. They are deeply involved in prostate cancer (PC), from its initiation until angiogenesis, and metastasis. Recent studies sensed the crucial value of exosomes and could imagine the important link between those nanoparticles, enhancing the diagnosis and treatments against PC. Although the emperical level of studies achieved until today, pore data have been collected about exosome’s mechanistic in PC. Therefore, through this review, we would like to shed light on the recent knowledge of the role of exosomes in PC and the recent applications of exosomes in enhancing the efficacities of diagnosis and therapies to beat PC.

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Abbreviations

AS:

Androgen signaling

CSCs:

Cancer stem cells

PC:

Prostate cancer

PCSCSs:

Prostate cancer stem cells

SCs:

Stem cells

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    Mohammed Moulay

  2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Saleh Al-Kareem

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Moulay, M., Al-Kareem, S. (2021). Exosomes: The Crucial Element in Prostate Cancer. In: Alzahrani, F.A., Saadeldin, I.M. (eds) Role of Exosomes in Biological Communication Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6599-1_15

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