Multivesicular Bodies
"Multivesicular Bodies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Endosomes containing intraluminal vesicles which are formed by the inward budding of the endosome membrane. Multivesicular bodies (MVBs) may fuse with other organelles such as LYSOSOMES or fuse back with the PLASMA MEMBRANE releasing their contents by EXOCYTOSIS. The MVB intraluminal vesicles released into the extracellular environment are known as EXOSOMES.
| Descriptor ID |
D057146
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.214.190.875.190.880.337.500
|
| Concept/Terms |
Multivesicular Bodies- Multivesicular Bodies
- Multivesicular Body
- Endosomal Carrier Vesicles
- Endosomal Carrier Vesicle
- Multi-Vesicular Bodies
- Multi Vesicular Bodies
- Multi-Vesicular Body
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Multivesicular Bodies".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Multivesicular Bodies".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Multivesicular Bodies" by people in this website by year, and whether "Multivesicular Bodies" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Multivesicular Bodies" by people in Profiles.