Clusters of circulating tumor cells traverse capillary-sized vessels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 4947-4952

  Au, Sam H ^a   Storey, Brian D ^b   Moore, John C ^a,c,d   Tang, Qin ^a,c,d   Chen, Yeng Long ^e   Javaid, Sarah ^a,c   Sarioglu, A Fatih ^a   Sullivan, Ryan ^a,c   Madden, Marissa W ^c   O'Keefe, Ryan ^c   Haber, Daniel A ^a,c,e   Maheswaran, Shyamala ^a,c   Langenau, David M ^a,c,d   Stott, Shannon L ^a,c   Toner, Mehmet ^a,f,g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer metastasis; Capillary microhemodynamics; Circulating tumor cell cluster microemboli; CTC clusters; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CAPILLARY; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOMA; MICROFLUIDICS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISCOELASTICITY; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ZEBRA FISH; CELL MOTION; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

CAPILLARIES; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 84965104188     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524448113     Document Type: Article

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