| Literature DB >> 27453707 |
Daniel K Yang1, Serena Leong2, Lydia L Sohn1.
Abstract
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are promising markers to determine cancer patient prognosis and track disease response to therapy. We present a multi-stage microfluidic device we have developed that utilizes inertial and Dean drag forces for isolating CTCs from whole blood. We demonstrate a 94.2% ± 2.1% recovery of cancer cells with our device when screening whole blood spiked with MCF-7 GFP cells.Entities:
Keywords: CTC; Inertial microfluidics; Size-based separation
Year: 2015 PMID: 27453707 PMCID: PMC4956345
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Micro Total Anal Syst ISSN: 1556-5890