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PLOS ONE
卷 8, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061774
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- Veridex LLC
- European Research Council
Filtration can achieve circulating tumor cell (CTC) enrichment from blood. Key parameters such as flow-rate, applied pressure, and fixation, vary largely between assays and their influence is not well understood. Here, we used a filtration system, to monitor these parameters and determine their relationships. Whole blood, or its components, with and without spiked tumor cells were filtered through track-etched filters. We characterize cells passing through filter pores by their apparent viscosity; the viscosity of a fluid that would pass with the same flow. We measured a ratio of 5 center dot 10(4):10(2):1 for the apparent viscosities of 15 mu m diameter MDA-231 cells, 10 mu m white cells and 90 fl red cells passing through a 5 mu m pore. Fixation increases the pressure needed to pass cells through 8 mu m pores 25-fold and halves the recovery of spiked tumor cells. Filtration should be performed on unfixed samples at a pressure of similar to 10 mbar for a 1 cm(2) track-etched filter with 5 mu m pores. At this pressure MDA-231 cells move through the filter in 1 hour. If fixation is needed for sample preservation, a gentle fixative should be selected. The difference in apparent viscosity between CTC and blood cells is key in optimizing recovery of CTC.
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