Discrimination between Circulating Endothelial Cells and Blood Cell Populations with Overlapping Phenotype Reveals Distinct Regulation and Predictive Potential in Cancer Therapy

BACKGROUND: Circulating endothelial cells (CECs) have been proposed to predict patient response to antiangiogenic cancer therapy. However, contradictory reports and inconsistency in the phenotypic identification of CECs have led us to compare three cell populations with partially overlapping phenot...

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Main Authors: Patrick Starlinger, Philipp Brugger, Christian Reiter, Dominic Schauer, Silvia Sommerfeldt, Dietmar Tamandl, Irene Kuehrer, Sebastian F. Schoppmann, Michael Gnant, Christine Brostjan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-10-01
Series:Neoplasia: An International Journal for Oncology Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476558611800850