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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020

A Novel Liquid Biopsy Strategy to Detect Small Amounts of Cancer Cells Using Cancer-Specific Replication Adenoviruses.

Masahiro Takakura, Emi Takata, Toshiyuki Sasagawa

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Masahiro TakakuraDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3707-8691
Emi TakataDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Toshiyuki SasagawaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 17K11270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a promising source of clinical and biological cancer information and can be a material for liquid biopsy. However, detecting and capturing these cells remains a challenge. Various biological factors (e.g., cell surface proteins, cell size, deformability, or dielectrophoresis) have been applied to detect CTCs. Cancer cells dramatically change their characteristics during tumorigenesis and metastasis. Hence, defining a cell as malignant using such a parameter is difficult. Moreover, immortality is an essential characteristic of cancer cells. Telomerase elongates telomeres and plays a critical role in cellular immortality and is specifically activated in cancer cells. Thus, the activation of telomerase can be a good fingerprint for cancer cells. Telomerase cannot be recognized by antibodies in living cells because it is a nuclear enzyme. Therefore, telomerase-specific replication adenovirus, which expresses the green fluorescent protein, has been applied to detect CTCs. This review explores the overview of this novel technology and its application in gynecological cancers.

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adenoviruscirculating tumor cells (CTCs)telomerase

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PMID33327605
PMCPMC7765046

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