Towards an optimal and unbiased approach for tumor cell isolation

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 699-709

  Sajay, Bhuvanendran Nair Gourikutty ^a,b   Chang, Chia Pin ^a   Ahmad, Hamizah ^a   Chung, Wong Chee ^a   Puiu, Poenar Daniel ^b   Rahman, Abdur Rub Abdur ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cancer cell isolation; Circulating tumor cells (CTCs); Metastasis; Negative enrichment; White blood cell (WBC) depletion

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELLS; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS; COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES; ENRICHMENT APPROACHES; METASTASIS; ON-GOING IMPROVEMENT; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; OPTIMIZATION;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL ISOLATION; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LEUKOCYTES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; SYRINGES;

EID: 84880733133     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: 15728781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-013-9757-9     Document Type: Article

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