Intact vesicles are eluted from the exoEasy membrane with higher purity compared with ultracentrifugation.
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM; 20,000x magnification) was performed on a solubilized pellet from ultracentrifugation of pre-filtered (0.8 µm) plasma compared to an exoEasy eluate. Both preparations contain vesicle-shaped structures with an expected size range from 50–200 nm (white arrows; scale bar 200 nm). The preparation from ultracentrifugation also includes many smaller, unidentified structures that do not match the expected shape and size of extracellular vesicles.