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ArticleScientific reports2016

Application of optically-induced-dielectrophoresis in microfluidic system for purification of circulating tumour cells for gene expression analysis- Cancer cell line model.

Tzu-Keng Chiu, Wen-Pin Chou, Song-Bin Huang, Hung-Ming Wang, Yung-Chang Lin, Chia-Hsun Hsieh, Min-Hsien Wu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tzu-Keng ChiuDepartment of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Wen-Pin ChouGraduate Institute of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Song-Bin HuangGraduate Institute of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Hung-Ming WangDivision of Haematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Yung-Chang LinDivision of Haematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Chia-Hsun HsiehDepartment of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Min-Hsien WuGraduate Institute of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, 33302, Taiwan (R. O. C.).
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWChang Gung University · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in a blood circulation system are associated with cancer metastasis. The analysis of the drug-resistance gene expression of cancer patients' CTCs holds promise for selecting a more effective therapeutic regimen for an individual patient. However, the current CTC isolation schemes might not be able to harvest CTCs with sufficiently high purity for such applications. To address this issue, this study proposed to integrate the techniques of optically induced dielectrophoretic (ODEP) force-based cell manipulation and fluorescent microscopic imaging in a microfluidic system to further purify CTCs after the conventional CTC isolation methods. In this study, the microfluidic system was developed, and its optimal operating conditions and performance for CTC isolation were evaluated. The results revealed that the presented system was able to isolate CTCs with cell purity as high as 100%, beyond what is possible using the previously existing techniques. In the analysis of CTC gene expression, therefore, this method could exclude the interference of leukocytes in a cell sample and accordingly contribute to higher analytical sensitivity, as demonstrated in this study. Overall, this study has presented an ODEP-based microfluidic system capable of simply and effectively isolating a specific cell species from a cell mixture.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticNeoplastic Cells, CirculatingCell Line, TumorCell SeparationHumansMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicroscopy, Fluorescence

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PMID27609546
PMCPMC5016898
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