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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2023 Jun 26;13(3):4631–4658. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c210046

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Biogenesis of extracellular vesicles. Microvesicles are formed directly from plasma membrane budding by sequestering cytosolic cargo. Exosomes arise via endosomal maturation into multivesicular bodies (MVB). MVBs contain intraluminal vesicles generated by invagination of the limiting membrane and eventually released at the plasma membrane as exosomes.