NDLI: Probing circulating tumor cells in microfluidics

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Peng, Li Stratton, Zackary S. Dao, Ming Ritz, Jerome Huang, Tony Jun
Abstract	Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are important targets for study as we strive to better understand, diagnose, and treat cancers. However, CTCs are found in blood at extremely low concentrations; this makes isolation, enrichment, and characterization of CTCs technically challenging. Recently, the development of CTC separation devices has grown rapidly in both academia and industry. Part of this development effort centered on microfluidic platforms, exploiting the advantages of microfluidics to improve CTC separation performance and device integration. In this Focus article, we highlight some of the recent work in microfluidic CTC separation and detection systems and discuss our appraisal of what the field should do next.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2lc90148j
Ending Page	609
Page Count	8
Starting Page	602
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14730197
e-ISSN	14730189
Journal	Lab on a chip
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	13
Language	English
Publisher Date	2013-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry Bioengineering Chemistry(all) Biomedical Engineering Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Biochemistry Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering

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Probing circulating tumor cells in microfluidics