Microfluidic, marker-free isolation of circulating tumor cells from blood samples

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 694-710

  Karabacak, Nezihi Murat ^a   Spuhler, Philipp S ^a   Fachin, Fabio ^a   Lim, Eugene J ^a   Pai, Vincent ^a   Ozkumur, Emre ^a   Martel, Joseph M ^a   Kojic, Nikola ^a   Smith, Kyle ^a   Chen, Pin I ^a   Yang, Jennifer ^a   Hwang, Henry ^a   Morgan, Bailey ^a   Trautwein, Julie ^a   Barber, Thomas A ^a   Stott, Shannon L ^a   Maheswaran, Shyamala ^a   Kapur, Ravi ^a   Haber, Daniel A ^a,b   Toner, Mehmet ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIBODY; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CELL ISOLATION; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTC ICIP SYSTEM; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RNA ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CELL SEPARATION; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MAGNETS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 84895449750     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.044     Document Type: Article

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