Christer Ericsson

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What type of cancer did Thomas Ashworth's patient suffer that gives so many Circulating Tumor Cells?

In 1869, the resident physician at Melbourne hospital, Australia, Thomas Ashworth for the first time observed cells from a postmortem blood sample, from a patient who had about 30 subcutaneous...

18 December 2013 1,937 3 View

The ideal CTC isolation instrument?

Current methods of isolating CTCs are based on either specific cell surface markers, such as EpCAM (which limits the range of cells one can isolate), on size, density or on screening massive...

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Are EpCAM negative circulating tumour cells what really matters?

EpCAM positive circulating tumour cells would, by definition, retain a fair amount of epithelial characteristics. Does that mean that hey are not (very) invasive and do not have (much) stem...

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How does a circulating tumor cell (CTC) end up in the circulation?

Passive shedding, random migration, directed migration?

09 November 2012 1,894 14 View