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Circulating tumor cells: approaches to isolation and characterization

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) shed from primary and metastatic cancers are admixed with blood components and are thus rare, making their isolation and characterization a major technological challenge. CTCs hold the key to understanding the biology of metastasis and provide a biomarker to noninvasiv...

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Autores principales: Yu, Min, Stott, Shannon, Toner, Mehmet, Maheswaran, Shyamala, Haber, Daniel A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21300848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201010021