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SUBMITTER: Satelli A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3959622 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Satelli Arun A Mitra Abhisek A Cutrera Jeffry J JJ Devarie Marcos M Xia Xueqing X Ingram Davis R DR Dibra Denada D Somaiah Neeta N Torres Keila E KE Ravi Vinod V Ludwig Joseph A JA Kleinerman Eugenie S ES Li Shulin S
Cancer research 20140121 6
To date, no specific marker exists for the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) from different types of sarcomas, though tools are available for detection of CTCs in peripheral blood of patients with cancer for epithelial cancers. Here, we report cell-surface vimentin (CSV) as an exclusive marker on sarcoma CTC regardless of the tissue origin of the sarcoma as detected by a novel monoclonal antibody. Utilizing CSV as a probe, we isolated and enumerated sarcoma CTCs with high sensitivity an ...[more]