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. 2020 Jan 27;14(1):011501. doi: 10.1063/1.5127077

TABLE I.

Details of different extracellular vesicles.

Extracellular vesicles Shape Size Origin
Exosome Round shape 40–100 nm Endosomes from many cell types
Microvesicle Irregular shape 20–1000 nm Plasma membrane of many cell types
Apoptotic body Heterogeneous 1–5 μm Plasma membrane from the endoplasmic reticulum
A large oncosome Amoeboid phenotype 1–10 μm Plasma membrane from cancer cells