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University of California, Irvine

Extracellular Vesicles in Health and Disease

This course aims to provide current understanding about extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their role in health and diseases. The EVs are known to be involved in cell to cell communication. Apart from maintaining normal cell physiology, EVs deliver messages that can drive or influence the progression of a disease. This course discusses recent advances made in the field to give an introduction on their function in health as well as in disease.This course includes four modules. Module 1 is an introduction to the course, and provides an overview of the previous MOOC on EVs “Basics of Extracellular Vesicles”. Module 2 focuses on the role of EVs in physiological conditions and gives various examples on their role in metabolism, inflammation, immunity and pregnancy and coagulation. This module also briefly covers the topic of microorganism-derived EVs such as vesicles from bacteria and discusses EVs from apoptotic and senescent cells. In Module 3, we focus on the role of EVs in cancer: how EVs can mediate communication between the tumour and its microenvironment, the functional role of immune cell-derived EVs in development of cancer, as well as the role of EVs in cancer cell proliferation, survival, metastasis and drug resistance. In Module 4, the role of EVs in diseases of the cardiovascular, haematopoietic, nervous, respiratory and urinary systems, and infectious diseases will be presented.This course is recommended for intermediate learners or anyone who is interested in the field of extracellular vesicles and their role in a particular disease including scientists, clinicians, or cell and molecular biologists who look to broaden their understanding of the field.

Status: Oncology
Status: Neurology
IntermediateCourse12 hours

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DS

5.0Reviewed Aug 3, 2022

Thank you for offering this informative course. I personally did learn new topics.

YM

5.0Reviewed Apr 9, 2020

It's a very good course for beginners to broaden their knowledge.

MR

5.0Reviewed Apr 27, 2020

I have learned a lot from this course. This is one of the challenging courses I have done from Coursera.

DM

5.0Reviewed Jun 1, 2021

Excellent with lots of knowledge and informations with an excellent platform for build up our continuing education.

DO

5.0Reviewed Nov 23, 2019

Amazing course and the content was very clear precise and useful for my professional development in this fascinating field.

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