Isolation of Breast cancer CTCs with multitargeted buoyant immunomicrobubbles.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces

Keywords

Antibody; Breast cancer; CTC; EGFR; EpCAM; Microbubbles; Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism; Breast Neoplasms/blood; Breast Neoplasms/pathology; Cell Line, Tumor Cell Separation/methods; Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule/metabolism; Female; Humans; Keratins/metabolism; MCF-7 Cells; Microbubbles; Neoplastic Cells, Circulating/metabolism; Neoplastic Cells, Circulating/pathology

Abstract

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are extremely rare cells found in blood of metastatic cancer patients. There is a need for inexpensive technologies for fast enrichment of CTCs from large blood volumes. Previous data showed that antibody-conjugated lipid shell immuno-microbubbles (MBs) bind and isolate cells from biological fluids by flotation. Here, blood-stable MBs targeted to several surface markers for isolation of breast tumor cells were developed. MBs coated with anti-human EpCAM antibodies showed efficient binding of EpCAM

Clinical Institute

Cancer

Department

Oncology

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