"Stealth dissemination" of macrophage-tumor cell fusions cultured from blood of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

"Stealth dissemination" of macrophage-tumor cell fusions cultured from blood of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Here we describe isolation and characterization of macrophage-tumor cell fusions (MTFs) from the blood of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients. The MTFs were generally aneuploidy, and immunophenotypic characterizations showed that the MTFs express markers characteristic of PDAC and stem...

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Main Authors: Gary A Clawson, Gail L Matters, Ping Xin, Christopher McGovern, Eric Wafula, Claude dePamphilis, Morgan Meckley, Joyce Wong, Luke Stewart, Christopher D'Jamoos, Naomi Altman, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Zhen Du, Loren Honaas, Thomas Abraham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184451

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