Is your article EV-TRACKed?

Jan Van Deun; An Hendrix; EV-TRACK consortium

doi:10.1080/20013078.2017.1379835

Is your article EV-TRACKed?

J Extracell Vesicles. 2017 Nov 10;6(1):1379835. doi: 10.1080/20013078.2017.1379835. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Jan Van Deun^{1

2}, An Hendrix^{1

2}; EV-TRACK consortium

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research, Department of Radiation Oncology and Experimental Cancer Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
² Cancer Research Institute Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Abstract

The EV-TRACK knowledgebase is developed to cope with the need for transparency and rigour to increase reproducibility and facilitate standardization of extracellular vesicle (EV) research. The knowledgebase includes a checklist for authors and editors intended to improve the transparency of methodological aspects of EV experiments, allows queries and meta-analysis of EV experiments and keeps track of the current state of the art. Widespread implementation by the EV research community is key to its success.

Keywords: EV-TRACK; Exosomes; characterization; extracellular vesicles; isolation; microvesicles; reproducibility; standardization.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders [PhD position, JVD]; Fund for Scientific Research Flanders [post-doctoral position, AH].