A simple packed bed device for antibody labelled rare cell capture from whole blood.

Kralj, Jason G; Arya, Chandamany; Tona, Alessandro; Forbes, Thomas P; Munson, Matthew S; Sorbara, Lynn; Srivastava, Sudhir; Forry, Samuel P · Lab Chip · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We have developed a system to isolate rare cells from whole blood using commercially available components and simple microfluidics. We characterized the capture of MCF-7 cells spiked into whole human blood using this system to demonstrate that enrichment and enumeration studies give results similar to in situ surface-modified devices while reducing fabrication and operation complexity.

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