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

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 f...

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Main Authors: Heming Li, Qing H. Meng, Hyangsoon Noh, Neeta Somaiah, Keila E. Torres, Xueqing Xia, Izhar S. Batth, Cissimol P. Joseph, Mengyuan Liu, Ruoyu Wang, Shulin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-05-01
Series:OncoImmunology
Subjects:
circulating tumor cells
cell-surface vimentin
gastrointestinal stromal tumor
sarcoma
tumor-associated macrophage
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2017.1420450

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