4.7 Article

Fundamentals of integrated ferrohydrodynamic cell separation in circulating tumor cell isolation

Journal

LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 1706-1723

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1lc00119a

Keywords

-

Funding

  1. NCATS NIH HHS [UL1 TR002378] Funding Source: Medline

Ask authors/readers for more resources

A new method for cell separation, iFCS, was developed to separate CTCs independently of their surface antigen expression and physical characteristics. This method integrated the diamagnetophoresis of CTCs and magnetophoresis of blood cells via a magnetic liquid medium, ferrofluid, and optimized parameters led to high recovery CTC separation in experimental and clinical samples.
Methods to separate circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples were intensively researched in order to understand the metastatic process and develop corresponding clinical assays. However current methods faced challenges that stemmed from CTCs' heterogeneity in their biological markers and physical morphologies. To this end, we developed integrated ferrohydrodynamic cell separation (iFCS), a scheme that separated CTCs independent of their surface antigen expression and physical characteristics. iFCS integrated both diamagnetophoresis of CTCs and magnetophoresis of blood cells together via a magnetic liquid medium, ferrofluid, whose magnetization could be tuned by adjusting its magnetic volume concentration. In this paper, we presented the fundamental theory of iFCS and its specific application in CTC separation. Governing equations of iFCS were developed to guide its optimization process. Three critical parameters that affected iFCS's cell separation performance were determined and validated theoretically and experimentally. These parameters included the sample flow rate, the volumetric concentration of magnetic materials in the ferrofluid, and the gradient of the magnetic flux density. We determined these optimized parameters in an iFCS device that led to a high recovery CTC separation in both spiked and clinical samples.

Authors

I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.

Reviews

Primary Rating

4.7
Not enough ratings

Secondary Ratings

Novelty
-
Significance
-
Scientific rigor
-
Rate this paper

Recommended

No Data Available
No Data Available