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Adaptation of Semiautomated Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Assays for Clinical and Preclinical Research Applications
 

Adaptation of Semiautomated Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Assays for Clinical and Preclinical Research Applications

Article DOI: 10.3791/51248-v 14:14 min February 28th, 2014
February 28th, 2014

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Summary

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are prognostic in several metastatic cancers. This manuscript describes the gold standard CellSearch system (CSS) CTC enumeration platform and highlights common misclassification errors. In addition, two adapted protocols are described for user-defined marker characterization of CTCs and CTC enumeration in preclinical mouse models of metastasis using this technology.

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CTC Assays Circulating Tumor Cells Metastatic Disease Clinical Research Preclinical Research CellSearch System User-defined Marker Optimization Protein Characterization CTC Capture Mouse Models Of Metastasis Blood Samples CTC Quality Misclassification Errors
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