Journal
BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-015-9945-x
Keywords
Circulating tumor cells; Herringbone; Micropost; Cell capture and harvest
Funding
- Ministry of Education of Singapore [ARC 22/13, RG 37/14]
- Nanyang Technological University
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Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which are derived from primary tumor site and transported to distant organs, are considered as the major cause of metastasis. So far, various techniques have been applied for CTC isolation and enumeration. However, there exists great demand to improve the sensitivity of CTC capture, and it remains challenging to elute the cells efficiently from device for further biomolecular and cellular analyses. In this study, we fabricate a dual functional chip integrated with herringbone structure and micropost array to achieve CTC capture and elution through EpCAM-based immunoreaction. Hep3B tumor cell line is selected as the model of CTCs for processing using this device. The results demonstrate that the capture limit of Hep3B cells can reach up to 10 cells (per mL of sample volume) with capture efficiency of 80 % on average. Moreover, the elution rate of the captured Hep3B cells can reach up to 69.4 % on average for cell number ranging from 1 to 100. These results demonstrate that this device exhibits dual functions with considerably high capture rate and elution rate, indicating its promising capability for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics.
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