Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 Dec 3;7:315. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00315

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2019 Patil, Henderson, Luong, Annamalai, Sreejit and Krishnamurthy.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

PMC Copyright notice

Exosomes from the immune system affect cardiac tissue. Immune system is modulated under different metabolic settings including diabetes, obesity, fatty liver and metabolic syndromes. The role of exosomes secreted by immune cells under these conditions in heart pathology is yet to be fully described. It is also not known whether the beneficial effects of stem cell-based therapies in heart diseases are mediated by immune modulation that may lead to the release of cardio protective exosomes.