Continuous labeling of circulating tumor cells with microbeads using a vortex micromixer for highly selective isolation

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Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are identified in transit within the blood stream of cancer patients and have been proven to be a main cause of metastatic disease. Current approaches for the size-based isolation of CTCs have encountered technical challenges as some of the CTCs have a size similar to that of leukocytes and therefore CTCs are often lost in the process. Here, we propose a novel strategy where most of the CTCs are coated by a large number of microbeads to amplify their size to enable complete discrimination from leukocytes. In addition, all of the microbead labeling processes are carried out in a continuous manner to prevent any loss of CTCs during the isolation process. Thus, a microfluidic mixer was employed to facilitate the efficient and selective labeling of CTCs from peripheral blood samples. By generating secondary vortex flows called Taylor-Gortler vortices perpendicular to the main flow direction in our microfluidic device, CTCs were continuously and successfully coated with anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule-conjugated beads. After the continuous labeling, the enlarged CTCs were perfectly trapped in a micro-filter whereas all of the leukocytes escaped.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Biosensors & bioelectronics - 40(2013), 1 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 63-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lin, Ming Xian [VerfasserIn]
Hyun, Kyung-A [VerfasserIn]
Moon, Hui-Sung [VerfasserIn]
Sim, Tae Seok [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jeong-Gun [VerfasserIn]
Park, Jae Chan [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Soo Suk [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Hyo-Il [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.04.2013

Date Revised 12.11.2012

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bios.2012.06.016

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM219338957