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. 2021 Apr 6;143(14):1426–1449. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049254

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Circulation is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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Figure 1. — Formation, characterization, and secretion of various extracellular vesicles such as microvesicles, exosomes, and apoptosomes. Blue indicates extracellular compartment; red indicates intracellular compartment; and yellow indicates acidic compartment. Note that organelle proportions are not to scale. EV indicates extracellular vesicles; ILV, intraluminal vesicles; L, lysosome; MVB, multivesicular bodies; PM, plasma membrane; RER, rough endoplasmic reticulum; and TGN, trans-Golgi network.