Kenneth Witwer
American biologist
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Kenneth Witwer's Degrees
- PhD Molecular and Cellular Pathobiology Johns Hopkins University
- Bachelors Biology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth W. Witwer is an associate professor of molecular and comparative pathobiology and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. As nominated President-Elect of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles , Witwer previously served as Secretary General and Executive Chair of Science and Meetings of the society. His laboratory studies extracellular vesicles , noncoding and extracellular RNA , and enveloped viruseses, including HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Witwer is a member of the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease, has advised the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US National Institutes of Health, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
Kenneth Witwer's Published Works
Published Works
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines (2018) (5288)
- Minimal experimental requirements for definition of extracellular vesicles and their functions: a position statement from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (2014) (1971)
- Standardization of sample collection, isolation and analysis methods in extracellular vesicle research (2013) (1798)
- EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research (2017) (699)
- Techniques used for the isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles: results of a worldwide survey (2016) (596)
- Obstacles and opportunities in the functional analysis of extracellular vesicle RNA – an ISEV position paper (2017) (499)
- Circulating microRNA biomarker studies: pitfalls and potential solutions. (2015) (394)
- Defining mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC)-derived small extracellular vesicles for therapeutic applications (2019) (313)
- EVpedia: a community web portal for extracellular vesicles research (2015) (308)
- Extracellular vesicles or exosomes? On primacy, precision, and popularity influencing a choice of nomenclature (2019) (293)
- Concise Review: Developing Best‐Practice Models for the Therapeutic Use of Extracellular Vesicles (2017) (222)
- Extracellular Vesicles Exploit Viral Entry Routes for Cargo Delivery (2016) (191)
- MicroRNA Regulation of IFN-β Protein Expression: Rapid and Sensitive Modulation of the Innate Immune Response (2010) (181)
- Updating the MISEV minimal requirements for extracellular vesicle studies: building bridges to reproducibility (2017) (175)
- Assessment of small RNA sorting into different extracellular fractions revealed by high-throughput sequencing of breast cell lines (2015) (163)
- Relationships of PBMC microRNA expression, plasma viral load, and CD4+ T-cell count in HIV-1-infected elite suppressors and viremic patients (2012) (156)
- Age-Related Changes in Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Characteristics and Internalization by Leukocytes (2017) (155)
- Biological membranes in EV biogenesis, stability, uptake, and cargo transfer: an ISEV position paper arising from the ISEV membranes and EVs workshop (2019) (149)
- Comparison of Methods for miRNA Extraction from Plasma and Quantitative Recovery of RNA from Cerebrospinal Fluid (2013) (147)
- Methods for Separation and Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles: Results of a Worldwide Survey Performed by the ISEV Rigor and Standardization Subcommittee (2020) (144)
- Extracellular vesicle–depleted fetal bovine and human sera have reduced capacity to support cell growth (2015) (117)
- Toward the promise of microRNAs – Enhancing reproducibility and rigor in microRNA research (2016) (111)
- TNFα and IL-1β modify the miRNA cargo of astrocyte shed extracellular vesicles to regulate neurotrophic signaling in neurons (2018) (106)
- Transfer and functional consequences of dietary microRNAs in vertebrates: Concepts in search of corroboration (2014) (106)
- Urinary extracellular vesicles: A position paper by the Urine Task Force of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (2021) (102)
- XenomiRs and miRNA homeostasis in health and disease (2012) (98)
- Coordinated Regulation of SIV Replication and Immune Responses in the CNS (2009) (97)
- Real-time quantitative PCR and droplet digital PCR for plant miRNAs in mammalian blood provide little evidence for general uptake of dietary miRNAs (2013) (94)
- Extracellular vesicles versus synthetic nanoparticles for drug delivery (2021) (92)
- Real-time quantitative PCR and droplet digital PCR for plant miRNAs in mammalian blood provide little evidence for general uptake of dietary miRNAs Limited evidence for general uptake of dietary plant xenomiRs (2013) (92)
- Highly Purified Human Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Stem Cells Alleviate Aging Cellular Phenotypes of Senescent Human Cells (2019) (90)
- Extracellular vesicle-associated Aβ mediates trans-neuronal bioenergetic and Ca2+-handling deficits in Alzheimer’s disease models (2016) (89)
- The power of imaging to understand extracellular vesicle biology in vivo (2021) (88)
- Critical considerations for the development of potency tests for therapeutic applications of mesenchymal stromal cell-derived small extracellular vesicles. (2021) (79)
- Considerations towards a roadmap for collection, handling and storage of blood extracellular vesicles (2019) (76)
- International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy statement on extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stromal cells and other cells: considerations for potential therapeutic agents to suppress coronavirus disease-19 (2020) (76)
- Senescence cell-associated extracellular vesicles serve as osteoarthritis disease and therapeutic markers. (2019) (73)
- MicroRNA Expression and Association with Clinicopathologic Features in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Systematic Review. (2015) (70)
- Updating MISEV: Evolving the minimal requirements for studies of extracellular vesicles (2021) (64)
- A brief history of nearly EV‐erything – The rise and rise of extracellular vesicles (2021) (63)
- A plasma microRNA signature of acute lentiviral infection: biomarkers of central nervous system disease (2011) (62)
- Induction of HIF-1α by HIV-1 Infection in CD4+ T Cells Promotes Viral Replication and Drives Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Inflammation (2018) (60)
- Validated MicroRNA Target Databases: An Evaluation (2015) (57)
- Ribonucleic artefacts: are some extracellular RNA discoveries driven by cell culture medium components? (2017) (57)
- Summary of the ISEV workshop on extracellular vesicles as disease biomarkers, held in Birmingham, UK, during December 2017 (2018) (55)
- Comprehensive evaluation of methods for small extracellular vesicles separation from human plasma, urine and cell culture medium (2020) (54)
- Influence of species and processing parameters on recovery and content of brain tissue-derived extracellular vesicles (2020) (52)
- Human perivascular stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles mediate bone repair (2019) (51)
- Characterization of extracellular vesicles and synthetic nanoparticles with four orthogonal single‐particle analysis platforms (2021) (49)
- Association of BRAF V600E Mutation and MicroRNA Expression with Central Lymph Node Metastases in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Prospective Study from Four Endocrine Surgery Centers. (2016) (48)
- ISEV2018 abstract book (2018) (46)
- Diet-derived microRNAs: unicorn or silver bullet? (2017) (42)
- Advances, challenges, and opportunities in extracellular RNA biology: insights from the NIH exRNA Strategic Workshop. (2018) (40)
- Data submission and quality in microarray-based microRNA profiling. (2013) (38)
- Serum extracellular vesicle depletion processes affect release and infectivity of HIV-1 in culture (2016) (38)
- Towards mechanisms and standardization in extracellular vesicle and extracellular RNA studies: results of a worldwide survey (2018) (38)
- Therapeutic effects of adipose-tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells and their extracellular vesicles in experimental silicosis (2018) (37)
- Extracellular vesicles and chronic inflammation during HIV infection (2019) (37)
- Diet-responsive mammalian miRNAs are likely endogenous. (2014) (36)
- Functional assays to assess the therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles (2020) (35)
- miRNA Profiles of Monocyte-Lineage Cells Are Consistent with Complicated Roles in HIV-1 Restriction (2012) (35)
- RNAi technologies in agricultural biotechnology: The Toxicology Forum 40th Annual Summer Meeting. (2015) (35)
- Revisiting Extracellular RNA Release, Processing, and Function. (2021) (35)
- Uptake of dietary milk miRNAs by adult humans: a validation study (2016) (35)
- Towards defining reference materials for measuring extracellular vesicle refractive index, epitope abundance, size and concentration (2020) (34)
- An SIV/macaque model targeted to study HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (2018) (33)
- Stable tRNA halves can be sorted into extracellular vesicles and delivered to recipient cells in a concentration-dependent manner (2019) (33)
- SIV replication is directly downregulated by four antiviral miRNAs (2013) (33)
- Acetylcholinesterase is not a generic marker of extracellular vesicles (2019) (32)
- Contamination or artifacts may explain reports of plant miRNAs in humans. (2015) (29)
- Circulating extracellular vesicle content reveals de novo DNA methyltransferase expression as a molecular method to predict septic shock (2019) (29)
- Towards defining reference materials for extracellular vesicle size, concentration, refractive index and epitope abundance (2020) (29)
- Elevated brain monoamine oxidase activity in SIV- and HIV-associated neurological disease. (2014) (28)
- Highlights of the São Paulo ISEV workshop on extracellular vesicles in cross-kingdom communication (2017) (28)
- Opposing impacts on healthspan and longevity by limiting dietary selenium in telomere dysfunctional mice (2016) (27)
- Alternative miRNAs? Human sequences misidentified as plant miRNAs in plant studies and in human plasma (2018) (26)
- Rigor and standardization of extracellular vesicle research: Paving the road towards robustness (2020) (26)
- Paving the path to HIV neurotherapy: Predicting SIV CNS disease. (2015) (25)
- Induction of Innate Immune Responses by SIV In Vivo and In Vitro: Differential Expression and Function of RIG-I and MDA5 (2011) (24)
- Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection Induces Consistent Changes in Circulating MicroRNAs That Are Associated with Nonlytic Hepatocyte Release (2015) (24)
- Quinolinic acid/tryptophan ratios predict neurological disease in SIV-infected macaques and remain elevated in the brain under cART (2015) (24)
- Highly efficient magnetic labelling allows MRI tracking of the homing of stem cell‐derived extracellular vesicles following systemic delivery (2021) (23)
- A bacterial extracellular vesicle‐based intranasal vaccine against SARS‐CoV‐2 protects against disease and elicits neutralizing antibodies to wild‐type and Delta variants (2022) (23)
- Human and Cow Have Identical miR-21-5p and miR-30a-5p Sequences, Which Are Likely Unsuited to Study Dietary Uptake from Cow Milk. (2018) (23)
- miRNAs in platelet-poor blood plasma and purified RNA are highly stable: a confirmatory study (2018) (22)
- Unbiased proteomic profiling of host cell extracellular vesicle composition and dynamics upon HIV‐1 infection (2021) (20)
- Dietary flaxseed modulates the miRNA profile in irradiated and non-irradiated murine lungs (2014) (20)
- Re: "Exosomes Derived from Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Treatment for Severe COVID-19" by Sengupta et al. (2020) (19)
- Release of extracellular vesicle miR-494-3p by ARPE-19 cells with impaired mitochondria. (2020) (17)
- A bacterial extracellular vesicle-based intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 protects against disease and elicits neutralizing antibodies to wild-type and Delta variants (2021) (17)
- ISEV and ISCT statement on EVs from MSCs and other cells: considerations for potential therapeutic agents to suppress COVID-19 (2020) (17)
- Evidence for miRNA expression differences of HIV-1-positive, treatment-naive patients and elite suppressors: a re-analysis. (2012) (16)
- Plant microRNAs in human sera are likely contaminants. (2019) (14)
- Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of extracellular vesicles administered intravenously and intranasally to Macaca nemestrina (2021) (14)
- Tristetraprolin expression and microRNA-mediated regulation during simian immunodeficiency virus infection of the central nervous system (2013) (13)
- Human perivascular stem cells prevent bone graft resorption in osteoporotic contexts by inhibiting osteoclast formation (2020) (13)
- Nipping disease in the bud: nSMase2 inhibitors as therapeutics in extracellular vesicle-mediated diseases. (2021) (12)
- Extracellular vesicle interplay in cardiovascular pathophysiology. (2021) (12)
- L1CAM-associated extracellular vesicles: A systematic review of nomenclature, sources, separation, and characterization (2022) (11)
- Potential role of cervicovaginal extracellular particles in diagnosis of endometriosis (2015) (11)
- How does an RNA selfie work? EV-associated RNA in innate immunity as self or danger (2020) (11)
- Reproducibility of extracellular vesicle research. (2022) (10)
- Modeling brain lentiviral infections during antiretroviral therapy in AIDS (2017) (10)
- Mutant Cas9-transcriptional activator activates HIV-1 in U1 cells in the presence and absence of LTR-specific guide RNAs. (2017) (10)
- Do platform-specific factors explain microRNA profiling disparities? (2012) (9)
- Hitting the Bullseye: Are extracellular vesicles on target? (2020) (9)
- SAMHD1 expression in blood cells of HIV-1 elite suppressors and viraemic progressors. (2015) (9)
- Isolation of HDL by sequential flotation ultracentrifugation followed by size exclusion chromatography reveals size-based enrichment of HDL-associated proteins (2021) (9)
- Advancing the use of noncoding RNA in regulatory toxicology: Report of an ECETOC workshop. (2016) (9)
- A benchmark for microRNA quantification algorithms using the OpenArray platform (2016) (8)
- Large‐scale production of extracellular vesicles: Report on the “massivEVs” ISEV workshop (2022) (8)
- miRNA profiling of primate cervicovaginal lavage and extracellular vesicles reveals miR‐186‐5p as a potential antiretroviral factor in macrophages (2020) (7)
- SAMHD1 transcript upregulation during SIV infection of the central nervous system does not associate with reduced viral load (2016) (7)
- Non‐Invasive imaging of extracellular vesicles: Quo vaditis in vivo? (2022) (7)
- Exomeres and Supermeres: monolithic or diverse? (2022) (7)
- Evolution of nasal and olfactory infection characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants (2022) (6)
- Phase 2 of extracellular RNA communication consortium charts next-generation approaches for extracellular RNA research (2022) (6)
- Characterization of extracellular vesicles and artificial nanoparticles with four orthogonal single-particle analysis platforms (2020) (6)
- Proceedings of the 2017 ISEV symposium on “HIV, NeuroHIV, drug abuse, & EVs” (2017) (5)
- Hypothetical Plant-Mammal Small RNA Communication: Packaging and Stoichiometry (2016) (5)
- OpenArray profiling reveals no differential modulation of miRNA by positive and negative CD4+ T cell immunoselection. (2014) (4)
- Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 inhibition attenuates extracellular vesicle release and improves neurobehavioral deficits in murine HIV (2022) (4)
- Proceedings of the ISEV symposium on “HIV, NeuroAIDS, drug abuse & EVs” (2017) (4)
- TNFα and IL-1β modify the miRNA cargo of astrocyte shed extracellular vesicles to regulate neurotrophic signaling in neurons (2018) (4)
- Brain Tissue-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Alzheimer’s Disease Display Altered Key Protein Levels Including Cell Type-Specific Markers (2022) (4)
- Methods for the identification and characterization of extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular studies - from exosomes to microvesicles. (2022) (4)
- Efficacy and safety of small extracellular vesicle interventions in wound healing and skin regeneration: A systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies (2022) (3)
- Cytotoxicity of aqueous cigarette smoke extract is affected by properties of pipettes used to prepare the extract. (2019) (3)
- Impact of ageing on plasma extracellular vesicle concentration, protein profile and internalisation by leukocytes (2017) (3)
- Extracellular vesicles: the next generation in gene therapy delivery. (2023) (2)
- Alternative miRNAs: Human sequences misidentified as plant miRNAs in plant studies and in human plasma (2017) (2)
- Dietary RNA is ripe for investigation (2020) (2)
- miRNAs and SAMHD1 regulation in vitro and in a model of HIV CNS disease (2015) (2)
- Nicked tRNAs are stable reservoirs of tRNA halves in cells and biofluids (2022) (2)
- HIV-1 Tat- and Vpr-responsive MicroRNAs of Neuronal Cells (2014) (2)
- Longitudinal characterization of circulating extracellular vesicles and small RNA during simian immunodeficiency virus infection and antiretroviral therapy (2022) (2)
- Current challenges and future directions for engineering extracellular vesicles for heart, lung, blood and sleep diseases (2023) (2)
- miR-21-5p and miR-30a-5p are identical in human and bovine, have similar isomiR distribution, and cannot be used to identify xenomiR uptake from cow milk (2018) (2)
- Cigarette smoke-induced extracellular vesicles from dendritic cells alter T-cell activation and HIV replication. (2022) (2)
- mir-21 is associated with inactive low molecular weight Argonaute complexes in thyroid cancer cell lines (2020) (2)
- Weiss Response to Sengupta et al. (DOI: 10.1089/scd.2020.0095). (2020) (2)
- Dataset: Uptake of dietary milk miRNAs by adult humans: a validation study (2016) (1)
- Isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles in stem cell-related studies (2017) (1)
- Relationships of PBMC microRNA expression, plasma viral load, and CD4+ T-cell count in HIV-1-infected elite suppressors and viremic patients (2012) (1)
- Influence of food intake on circulating extracellular vesicles and microrna profiles (2012) (1)
- Relationships of APOE Genotypes With Small RNA and Protein Cargo of Brain Tissue Extracellular Vesicles From Patients With Late-Stage AD (2022) (1)
- Announcing the ISEV2019 special achievement award recipients: Takahiro Ochiya and Marca Wauben (2019) (1)
- miRNA profiling of primate cervicovaginal lavage and extracellular vesicles reveals miR-186-5p as a potential retroviral restriction factor in macrophages (2018) (1)
- Witwer, K.W.; et al. Correction: miRNA Profiles of Monocyte-Lineage Cells Are Consistent with Complicated Roles in HIV-1 Restriction. Viruses 2012, 4, 1844-1864 (2013) (1)
- Relationships of Alzheimer's disease and apolipoprotein E genotypes with small RNA and protein cargo of brain tissue extracellular vesicles (2020) (1)
- Extracellular vesicle-associated microRNA-30b-5p activates macrophages through the SIRT1/ NF-κB pathway in cell senescence (2022) (1)
- SIV replication is directly downregulated by four antiviral miRNAs (2013) (1)
- The evolving paradigm of extracellular vesicles in intercellular signaling and delivery of therapeutic RNAs. (2022) (1)
- Circulating Extracellular Micrornas In Hereditary Angioedema (2014) (1)
- Surface phenotyping and quantitative proteomics reveal differentially enriched proteins of brain-derived extracellular vesicles in Parkinson’s disease (2022) (1)
- Swarming and Aggregation in the Parasitic Diplomonad Flagellate Spironucleus vortens (2018) (1)
- treatment-naive patients and elite suppressors : a re-analysis positive , − Evidence for miRNA expression differences of HIV-1 (2012) (1)
- Developing Treatments for Alzheimer's and Related Disorders with Precision Medicine: A Vision. (2021) (1)
- Exosomes, microvesicles, and other extracellular vesicles-a Keystone Symposia report. (2023) (1)
- Circulating cellular and extracellular microRNAs as biomarkers of lentiviral infection and disease progression (2013) (0)
- Modeling brain lentiviral infections during antiretroviral therapy in AIDS (2017) (0)
- Letter by Halushka and Witwer Regarding Article, "Circulating MicroRNA-122-5p Is Associated With a Lack of Improvement in Left Ventricular Function After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Regulates Viability of Cardiomyocytes Through Extracellular Vesicles". (2023) (0)
- RNA Interference: Applications and Biosafety (2017) (0)
- An SIV/macaque model targeted to study HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (2017) (0)
- expression level differences of miR-155 in HIV-1 infected patients miR-155 is differentially expressed in Treg subsets, which may explain (2012) (0)
- A critical reading of Dr. Rebecca Culshaw’s paper, Mathematical Modeling of AIDS Progression: Limitations, Expectations, and Future Directions, in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS, Winter 2006) (2007) (0)
- miRNAs and SAMHD1 regulation in vitro and in a model of HIV CNS disease (2015) (0)
- Serum extracellular vesicle depletion processes affect release and infectivity of HIV-1 in culture (2017) (0)
- are abundant in human serum and plasma pseudogenes transcripts from specific YRNA genes and -YRNA fragments derived by processing of (2015) (0)
- TRIM19-positive and TRIM19-negative cells in and around a perivascular cuff of CD68-positive macrophages. (2014) (0)
- Identification of cell types producing Interferon‐gamma (IFN g) in the brain and periphery of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infected macaques (2011) (0)
- Proceedings of the 2017 ISEV symposium on “HIV, NeuroHIV, drug abuse, & EVs” (2017) (0)
- of the Innate Immune Response Expression: Rapid and Sensitive Modulation Protein b MicroRNA Regulation of IFN-Janice (2010) (0)
- Synthetic miR-16-5p does not act as a reverse transcriptase co-factor to enhance detection of small RNA (2016) (0)
- Diet-derived microRNAs: unicorn or silver bullet? (2017) (0)
- The interferon beta response to simian immunodeficiency virus infection of the central nervous system: Induction, regulation, and effects (2010) (0)
- Abstract 1566: Influence of age on fibroblast derived extracellular vesicles and their role in melanoma progression (2022) (0)
- Proteomic Profiling Allows Unbiased Compositional Analysis of Extracellular Vesicle Subtypes (2020) (0)
- Viral and host small RNA transcriptome analysis of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2-infected human cells reveals novel viral short RNAs (2023) (0)
- miRNAs in platelet-poor blood plasma and purified RNA are highly stable: a confirmatory study (2018) (0)
- Author response: Human perivascular stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles mediate bone repair (2019) (0)
- [EVpedia] Epub-20141112 (2014) (0)
- On your MARCKS, get set, deliver: Engineering extracellular vesicles. (2021) (0)
- Diet-Responsive Mammalian miRNAs Are Likely Endogenous 1 (0)
- Announcing the ISEV2020 special achievement award recipients: Andrew Hill and Edit Buzás; and the recipient of the ISEV2020 special education award: Carolina Soekmadji (2020) (0)
- The weight of the evidence: Eating food plants and food RNA is not detrimental to health (2014) (0)
- Dietary Selenium Deprivation Oppositely Impacts Longevity and Healthspan in Telomere Dysfunctional Mice (2017) (0)
- Quinolinic acid/tryptophan ratios predict neurological disease in SIV-infected macaques and remain elevated in the brain under cART (2015) (0)
- A benchmark for microRNA quantification algorithms using the OpenArray platform (2016) (0)
- Unraveling multilayered extracellular vesicles: Speculation on cause (2023) (0)
- Tristetraprolin expression and microRNA-mediated regulation during simian immunodeficiency virus infection of the central nervous system (2013) (0)
- Special thanks to top 10 peer reviewers (2017) (0)
- Dietary RNA is ripe for investigation (2020) (0)
- Age-Related Changes in Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Characteristics and Internalization by Leukocytes (2017) (0)
- RNA landscapes of brain tissue and brain tissue-derived extracellular vesicles in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection and SIV-related central nervous system pathology (2023) (0)
- miR-210 Expression Is Strongly Hypoxia-Induced in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines and Is Associated with Extracellular Vesicles and Argonaute-2 (2022) (0)
- The interplay among HIV, monocytes/macrophages, and extracellular vesicles: a systematic review. (2023) (0)
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