Table 1.

The features of extracellular vesicles.

	Extracellular Vesicles (EVs)
Terminology	Exosomes	Microvesicles	Apoptotic Bodies
Origin	Multivesicle body	Plasma membrane	Plasma membrane
Size	50–150 nm	100–1000 nm	100–5000 nm
Marker proteins	CD9, CD63, Tsg101 etc.	Integrins, Selectins, CD40 etc.	Annexin V, thrombospondin, C3b etc.
References	[1,3]	[1,23]	[1,24]