From: Engineering strategies for customizing extracellular vesicle uptake in a therapeutic context
EV uptake route | Docking goal | Mechanism | Intracellular fate | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Membrane fusion | Cargo release directly into the cytosol | Direct membrane fusion | Delivery of cargo directly into the cytosol | |
Contact without internalization | Trigger signaling pathways | Signaling pathways | Activation of signaling pathways | [126] |
Internalization | Internalization | Endocytosis | Recycling | |
 |  | Phagocytosis | Degradation |  |
 |  | Macropinocytosis | Delivery |  |