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Record W4413358921 · doi:10.1002/jex2.70077

Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

2025· review· en· W4413358921 on OpenAlexafffund
Jolene Phelps, Amanda Orr, Katherine S. Elvira, Stephanie M. Willerth

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Extracellular Biology · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicExtracellular vesicles in disease
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Victoria
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlzheimer Society Research ProgramAlzheimer Society
KeywordsClinical trialDiseaseMedicineExtracellular vesiclesNeuroscienceAlzheimer's diseaseExtracellular vesicleFunction (biology)BioinformaticsMechanism (biology)PharmacologyBiologyPathologyMicrovesiclesCell biology

Abstract

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The development of novel treatments that restore brain function and improve patient outcomes for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is necessary, given the complications and lack of improvement in recently approved amyloid beta (Aβ)-targeting drugs. Cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been found to improve cognitive function through reduced inflammation, oxidative stress, and apoptosis, restoring neuronal and blood-brain barrier function, and inhibiting Aβ and phosphorylated tau build-up in the brain. Given the recent emergence of EVs into clinical trials, it is essential to provide the field with an update on proposed mechanisms of action, gaps in knowledge for further study, and recommendations for producing EVs with high therapeutic efficacy to ensure success in subsequent clinical trials. This systematic review summarizes original research to date that reports effects of mammalian cell-derived EVs for the treatment of AD. Evidence of therapeutic benefits and reported mechanisms of action are discussed. Further, methods for engineering EVs to increase their therapeutic efficacy and produce high-quality EVs relevant to the AD field are outlined. The quality of evidence is discussed in terms of reporting guidelines from the Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles (MISEV). The review further discusses current preclinical AD models and provides direction to improve the quality of AD models for testing novel therapeutics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.625
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.004
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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