Journal: Cancers
Article Title: High-Throughput Label-Free Isolation of Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells and CTC Clusters from Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients
doi: 10.3390/cancers12010127
Figure Lengend Snippet: Optimization of Labyrinth for cell recovery. ( A ) The Labyrinth was loaded with red dye to show the device’s structure as well as the inlet and outlets. ( B , C ) Using the H1650 lung cancer cell line, different flow rates ranging from 2300–2500 μL/min were tested for inertial separation of cancer cells. Pre-labeled H1650 cell line and DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole)-labeled white blood cells (WBCs) (1000 cells) were spiked into PBS and processed through the Labyrinth. Using a flow rate of 2500 μL/min, 82% ± 5% of H1650 cells were recovered from outlet #2 and 78% ± 18% of WBCs were removed through outlet #1. ( D ) Immunofluorescence staining optimization. Anti-human CD45 (cluster of differentiation 45) (green), anti-human PanCK (pan-Cytokeratin) (red), anti-human EpCAM (Epithelial cell adhesion molecule) (orange), and anti-human Vimentin (pink) antibodies were tested with lung cancer cell lines, H1975 and A549.
Article Snippet: The panel of antibodies (mouse anti-human CD45 (IgG2a, Biorad, Hercules, CA, USA), mouse anti-human PanCK (IgG1 Biorad, Hercules, CA, USA), anti-human EpCAM, biotinylated (goat IgG, R&D systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA), and rabbit anti-human Vimentin (Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA) were optimized using lung cancer cell lines including H1975 and A549.
Techniques: Cell Recovery, Labeling, Immunofluorescence, Staining