Fan, Z. Hugh
Circulating Tumor Cells: Isolation and Analysis
Introduces the reader to Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), their isolation method and analysis, and commercially available platforms
- Presents the historical perspective and the overview of the field of circulating tumor cells (CTCs)
- Discusses the state-of-art methods for CTC isolation, ranging from the macro- to micro-scale, from positive concentration to negative depletion, and from biological-property-enabled to physical-property-based approaches
- Details commercially available CTC platforms
- Describes post-isolation analysis and clinical translation
- Provides a glossary of scientific terms related to CTCs
Keywords: circulating tumor cells; microfluidics; CellSearch; single cell analysis; rare cells; cancer; metastasis; cell sorting; microfilter; liquid biopsy; aptamers; EpCAM; heterogeneity; biomarkers, General & Introductory Biomedical Engineering, Cell & Molecular Biology, General & Introductory Biomedical Engineering, Cell & Molecular Biology
- Editor
- Fan, Z. Hugh
- Vitha, Mark F.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Chemical Analysis: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications
- Page amount
- 464 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781119244547
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118915530