Algal Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic Applications

Extracellular vesicles (EV) are nano biomolecules released by the most type of the plant and animal cells, which have an important role in the cell to cell communications. EVs derived from these cells have tremendous therapeutic applications as these can efficiently deliver cargos to the target cells. In this study, the production and characterization of EVs from sustainable source of green algae is discussed. Their advantage of being cost-effective and production in higher quantity and relatively simple method of extraction could have potential applications as the drug delivery for several diseases such as cancer, neural disorders, inflammation, infectious, allergic diseases, etc. These extracellular vesicles perhaps could be loaded with a therapeutic agent and can be coated with drugs to target specific tissue, organ, or cell. Subsequently, pharmaceutical compositions can be coated to these extracellular vesicles, thereby; they can be used for monitoring, diagnosis and treating purposes.