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Cow's milk is economically important to the agricultural industry with the nutritive value of mil... more Cow's milk is economically important to the agricultural industry with the nutritive value of milk being routinely measured. This does not give full insight into normal mammary tissue turnover during the course of lactation, which could be important for both an understanding of milk production and animal welfare. We have previously demonstrated that submicron particles, including extracellular vesicles (EVs), can be measured in unprocessed cow's milk by flow cytometry and that they correlate with stage of lactation. A number of different techniques are available to measure EVs and other milk-derived particles. The purpose of this study was to compare two different methodologies and the value of fluorescent staining for the phospholipid phosphatidylserine (PS), which is exposed on the surface of EVs (but not other milk-derived particles). We used two different flow cytometers and nanotracker analysis to detect milk-derived particles in whole and skimmed milk samples. Our findings indicate significant correlation, after staining for PS, suggesting potential for larger multicenter studies in the future.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent an important mode of intercellular communication. Research... more Extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent an important mode of intercellular communication. Research in this field has grown rapidly in the last few years, and there is a plethora of techniques for the isolation and characterization of EVs, many of which are poorly standardized. EVs are heterogeneous in size, origin and molecular constituents, with considerable overlap in size and phenotype between different populations of EVs. Little is known about current practices for the isolation, purification and characterization of EVs. We report here the first large, detailed survey of current worldwide practices for the isolation and characterization of EVs. Conditioned cell culture media was the most widely used material (83%). Ultracentrifugation remains the most commonly used isolation method (81%) with 59% of respondents use a combination of methods. Only 9% of respondents used only 1 characterization method, with others using 2 or more methods. Sample volume, sample type and downstream application all influenced the isolation and characterization techniques employed.

British Journal of Haematology, 2005

There is a limited evidence base for self-testing andmanagement for oral anticoagulation manageme... more There is a limited evidence base for self-testing andmanagement for oral anticoagulation management. Available data suggest that these are credible models for a significant minority of patients if underpinned by structured training and follow-up. The guidelines presented are necessarily consensual and outline procedures for patient selection, training, product procurement, product maintenance, quality assurance procedures, dosage adjustment and clinical supervision. The costeffectiveness of these models remains to be elucidated within the UK. Further data on both health economic and clinical outcomes are required from UK based studies before widespread implementation of self-testing and management can be recommended on a wider scale.

The Lancet, 2012

Background Uptake of self-testing and self-management of oral anticoagulation has remained incons... more Background Uptake of self-testing and self-management of oral anticoagulation has remained inconsistent, despite good evidence of their eff ectiveness. To clarify the value of self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation, we did a metaanalysis of individual patient data addressing several important gaps in the evidence, including an estimate of the eff ect on time to death, fi rst major haemorrhage, and thromboembolism. , limiting searches to randomised trials with a maximally sensitive strategy. We approached all authors of included trials and requested individual patient data: primary outcomes were time to death, fi rst major haemorrhage, and fi rst thromboembolic event. We did prespecifi ed subgroup analyses according to age, type of control-group care (anticoagulation-clinic care vs primary care), self-testing alone versus self-management, and sex. We analysed patients with mechanical heart valves or atrial fi brillation separately. We used a random-eff ect model method to calculate pooled hazard ratios and did tests for interaction and heterogeneity, and calculated a time-specifi c number needed to treat.

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The European Hematology Association (EHA) Roadmap for European Hematology Research highlights maj... more The European Hematology Association (EHA) Roadmap for European Hematology Research highlights major achievements in diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders and identifies the greatest unmet clinical and scientific needs in those areas to enable better funded, more focused European hematology research. Initiated by the EHA, around 300 experts contributed to the consensus document, which will help European policy makers, research funders, research organizations, researchers, and patient groups make better informed decisions on hematology research. It also aims to raise public awareness of the burden of blood disorders on European society, which purely in economic terms is estimated at €23 billion per year, a level of cost that is not matched in current European hematology research funding. In recent decades, hematology research has improved our fundamental understanding of the biology of blood disorders, and has improved diagnostics and treatments, sometimes in revolutionary ways. This progress highlights the potential of focused basic research programs such as this EHA Roadmap.The EHA Roadmap identifies nine 'sections' in hematology: normal hematopoiesis, malignant lymphoid and myeloid diseases, anemias and related diseases, platelet disorders, blood coagulation and hemostatic disorders, transfusion medicine, infections in hematology, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. These sections span 60 smaller groups of diseases or disorders.The EHA Roadmap identifies priorities and needs across the field of hematology, including those to develop targeted therapies based on genomic profiling and chemical biology, to eradicate minimal residual malignant disease, and to develop cellular immunotherapies, combination treatments, gene therapies, hematopoietic stem cell treatments, and treatments that are better tolerated by elderly patients.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Jan 10, 2014

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are spherical bilayered proteolipids, harboring various bioactive mo... more Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are spherical bilayered proteolipids, harboring various bioactive molecules. Due to the complexity of the vesicular nomenclatures and components, online searches for EV-related publications and vesicular components are currently challenging. We present an improved version of EVpedia, a public database for EVs research. This community web portal contains a database of publications and vesicular components, identification of orthologous vesicular components, bioinformatic tools and a personalized function. EVpedia includes 6879 publications, 172 080 vesicular components from 263 high-throughput datasets, and has been accessed more than 65 000 times from more than 750 cities. In addition, about 350 members from 73 international research groups have participated in developing EVpedia. This free web-based database might serve as a useful resource to stimulate the emerging field of EV research. Availability and implementation: The web site was implemented in P...

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Jan 10, 2014

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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2015

Objective: Whether circulating microvesicles convey bioactive signals in neurodegenerative diseas... more Objective: Whether circulating microvesicles convey bioactive signals in neurodegenerative diseases remains currently unknown. In this study, we investigated the biochemical composition and biological function of exosomes isolated from sera of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods: Proteomic analysis was performed on microvesicle preparations from grouped samples of patients with genetic and sporadic forms of PD, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and healthy subjects. Nanoparticle-tracking analysis was used to assess the number and size of exosomes between patient groups. To interrogate their biological effect, microvesicles were added to primary rat cortical neurons subjected to either nutrient deprivation or sodium arsenite. Results: Among 1033 proteins identified, 23 exosome-associated proteins were differentially abundant in PD, including the regulator of exosome biogenesis syntenin 1. These protein changes were detected despite similar exosome numbers across groups suggesting that they may reflect exosome subpopulations with distinct functions. Accordingly, we showed in models of neuronal stress that Parkinson's-derived microvesicles have a protective effect. Interpretation: Collectively, these data suggest for the first time that immunophenotyping of circulating exosome subpopulations in PD may lead to a better understanding of the systemic response to neurodegeneration and the development of novel therapeutics.

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2015

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2014

To cite this article: van der Pol E, Coumans FAW, Grootemaat AE, Gardiner C, Sargent IL, Harrison... more To cite this article: van der Pol E, Coumans FAW, Grootemaat AE, Gardiner C, Sargent IL, Harrison P, Sturk A, van Leeuwen TG, Nieuwland R. Particle size distribution of exosomes and microvesicles determined by transmission electron microscopy, flow cytometry, nanoparticle tracking analysis, and resistive pulse sensing.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Jan 10, 2014

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2012

Recherche, 2012

... 16 Molecular Cytogenetic (FISH) Analysis of Hematolymphoid Disorders (Mark A. Micale andAnwar... more ... 16 Molecular Cytogenetic (FISH) Analysis of Hematolymphoid Disorders (Mark A. Micale andAnwar N. Mohamed). ... 26 Acute Leukemias (Joseph A. DiGiuseppe and Laila Mnayer). 27 Lymphoproliferative Disorders (Robert W. Allan, Samer Z.... © 1995-2011 LAVOISIER SAS. ...

The Journal of heart valve disease, 2008

Oral anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists is effective for the prevention and treatment of ... more Oral anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists is effective for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic events. Recent systematic reviews have shown that self-monitoring improved the quality of oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT), with patients spending more time in the therapeutic range than traditionally monitored patients, and with a concomitant decrease in the incidence of adverse effects. However, methodological and reporting heterogeneity has limited the strength of the reviews' conclusions. Differences were noted in terms of the assessment of outcome measures and the analysis methods used. For instance, not all used an intention-to-treat analysis, which may have over-inflated the results. Interpretation was limited by missing data: for example, it was not possible to combine mean tests in range, mean time in range, or to determine the level of deviant values. Time-to-event data (e.g., death, thromboembolic events) were reported as numbers of events, which prevented...

British Journal of Haematology, 2005

The Lancet, 2012

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Jan 10, 2014

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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2015

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2015

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2014

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), Jan 10, 2014

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2012

Recherche, 2012

The Journal of heart valve disease, 2008

The UK Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV) Forum meetings were born of the realization that there were ... more The UK Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV) Forum meetings were born of the realization that there were a number of UK laboratories studying extracellular vesicle biology and using similar techniques but without a regular national meeting dedicated to EVs at which to share their findings. This was compounded by the fact that many of these labs were working in different fields and thus networking and sharing of ideas and best practice was sometimes difficult. The first workshop was organized in 2013 by Dr Charlotte Lawson, under the auspices of the Society for Endocrinology, led to the founding of the UKEV Forum and the organization of a British Heart Foundation sponsored 1-day conference held in London in December 2014. Although growing in size every year, the central aims of these workshops have remained the same: to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas, to allow young scientists to present their data in the form of short talks and poster presentations and to discuss their work with more established scientists in the field. Here we include the presented abstracts for the 2015 1-day conference hosted by Cardiff University. This meeting was attended by approximately 130 delegates throughout the United Kingdom, but also attended by delegates from Belgium, Netherlands, France, Ireland and other nations. The day composed of plenary presentations from Prof Matthias Belting, Lund University, Sweden and Dr Guillaume van Niel, Institut Curie, Paris together with 10 short presentations from submitted abstracts. The topics covered were broad, with sessions on Mechanisms of EV production, EVs in Infection, EVs in Cancer and in Blood and Characterizing EVs in Biological fluids. This hopefully gives a reflection of the range of EV-related studies being conducted currently in the UK. There were also 33 poster presentations equally broad in subject matter. The organizers are grateful to the Life Science Research Network Wales Á a Welsh government-funding scheme that part-sponsored the conference. We are also grateful to commercial sponsors, and 3 paid-presentations are included in the abstracts. The UK EV Forum is expected to become an established annual event held at different Universities across the UK and continue to attract increasing delegate numbers and abstract submissions. We look forward to the next planned conference, which will be hosted by David Carter and his colleagues at Oxford Brookes University on 13th December 2016. Background: During maturation to an erythrocyte, a reticulocyte must eliminate any residual organelles and reduce its surface area. We have shown that both are achieved through a novel form of exocytosis whereby large (Â1.4 mm) intact, inside-out phosphatidylserine-exposed vesicles are expelled from the maturing reticulocyte (1,2). The exposed ''eat me'' phosphatidylserine signal ensures that released autophagic vesicles are rapidly removed from circulation by professional phagocytic cells within the spleen. Asplenic patients (by surgery or the pathological processes of haemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell disease) show elevated levels of circulating PS positive red cells as a result of inefficient release of these autophagic vesicles from their surface (2). Methods: Confocal microscopy was used to analyse the cellular location of proteins in reticulocytes produced from an in vitro culture system described in (1). Results: In reticulocytes, the autophagic vesicles contain organelle marker proteins and numerous erythroid membrane proteins, notably CD71 (Transferrin receptor), CD147 (Basigin) and stomatin. The presence of ubiquitin suggests a recognized mechanism for the targeting of proteins for extracellular export or degradation. Myosin motors are used to traffic autophagic vesicles around the maturing reticulocyte whereas other proteins involved in vesicle trafficking, SNARE (VAMP7) and ESCRT (CHMP4B), locate to defined positions at the point of vesicle extrusion. Conclusions: Our results show that autophagic vesicle release by maturing reticulocytes is a cellular process that although initiated and directed by the cell is facilitated by passage through the spleen. Their release ensures that the maturation, into erythrocytes, of the 2 million reticulocytes that the human body produces every second (3) occurs without the systemic release of potentially toxic material. Together our results describe a previously unrecognized mode of exocytosis which may have significance beyond erythropoiesis particularly with respect to apoptosis and autophagy. References