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SUBMITTER: Champanhac C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658478 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20151125
Pancreatic cancer costs nearly 40,000 lives in the U.S. each year and has one of the lowest survival rates among cancers. Effective treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is hindered by lack of a reliable biomarker. To address this challenge, aptamers were selected by cell-SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) targeting human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PL45). Five promising aptamers presenting low Kd values and good specificity were generated. Among thes ...[more]