Cell-surface vimentin-positive macrophage-like circulating tumor cells as a novel biomarker of metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Cell-surface vimentin-positive macrophage-like circulating tumor cells as a novel biomarker of metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors
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细胞表面波形蛋白阳性巨噬细胞样循环肿瘤细胞作为转移性胃肠道间质瘤的新型生物标志物
DOI:
10.1080/2162402x.2017.1420450
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发表时间:
2018-01-01
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7.2
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Li, Shulin
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作者:
Li, Heming;Meng, Qing H.;Li, Shulin
The clinical utility of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has been investigated in numerous publications, but CTCs that express very typical immune cell markers have not been reported. Here we report a novel class of CTCs-CSV-positive macrophage-like CTCs (ML-CTCs). This nomenclature was based on the fact that this class of CTCs can be captured from blood samples of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) patients using either the macrophage marker CD68 or our proprietary tumor-specific cell-surface vimentin (CSV) antibody 84-1; likewise, the captured ML-CTCs can be co-stained with both typical macrophage markers (CD14, CD68) and tumor cell markers (DOG-1, C-kit) but not CD45. Patients with metastatic GIST had significantly greater numbers of ML-CTCs than patients with localized GIST or cancer-free blood donors (P