Paper-Based MicroRNA Expression Profiling from Plasma and Circulating Tumor Cells
Author(s) -
Sai Mun Leong,
Karen Tan,
Hui Wen Chua,
Mo-Chao Huang,
Wai Chye Cheong,
MoHuang Li,
Steven Tucker,
Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2016.264432
Subject(s) - microrna , circulating tumor cell , digital polymerase chain reaction , whole blood , computational biology , cancer research , cancer , biology , metastasis , medicine , immunology , polymerase chain reaction , gene , biochemistry
Molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) holds great promise for monitoring metastatic progression and characterizing metastatic disease. However, leukocyte and red blood cell contamination of routinely isolated CTCs makes CTC-specific molecular characterization extremely challenging.
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