Measuring kinetics and metastatic propensity of CTCs by blood exchange between mice

Current methods for acquiring dissemination kinetics of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that form metastases have several limitations. Here, the authors show an approach for measuring endogenous CTC kinetics by continuously exchanging CTC-containing blood between un-anesthetized, tumor-bearing m...

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Main Authors: Bashar Hamza, Alex B. Miller, Lara Meier, Max Stockslager, Sheng Rong Ng, Emily M. King, Lin Lin, Kelsey L. DeGouveia, Nolawit Mulugeta, Nicholas L. Calistri, Haley Strouf, Christina Bray, Felicia Rodriguez, William A. Freed-Pastor, Christopher R. Chin, Grissel C. Jaramillo, Megan L. Burger, Robert A. Weinberg, Alex K. Shalek, Tyler Jacks, Scott R. Manalis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25917-5