Expression analysis of the macrophage-capping protein (CapG) in single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) isolated from blood samples of breast cancer patients
Y Decker, MHD Neumann, M Fleisch, H Neubauer, D Niederacher, T Fehm · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2014 · Heft 09
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Objective: Detection of CTCs by the CellSearch system is based on immunomagnetic enrichment of EpCAM+ cells. Supplementary tools are necessary to isolate and characterize also EpCAM negative CTCs. CapG was shown to be involved in cancer cell migration and invasiveness of breast cancer (BC). Aim of this work was to characterize CapG expression in CTCs of BC patients. Material and methods: CTCs were enriched and detected in blood samples using the CellSearch system. EpCAM+ cells were isolated from CellSearch cartridges by the CellCelector system (ALS, Jena, Germany), an automated scanning microscope and micromanip…