[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cells: biology and clinical significance

D Lin, L Shen, M Luo, K Zhang, J Li, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are tumor cells that have sloughed off the primary tumor and
extravasate into and circulate in the blood. Understanding of the metastatic cascade of CTCs …

Direct Bottom-Up In Situ Growth: A Paradigm Shift for Studies in Wet-Chemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles

GA Vinnacombe-Willson, Y Conti, A Stefancu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

[HTML][HTML] A review of circulating tumour cell enrichment technologies

AJ Rushton, G Nteliopoulos, JA Shaw, RC Coombes - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are cancer cells shed into the bloodstream
from tumours and their analysis can provide important insights into cancer detection and …

Advances in biosensors and diagnostic technologies using nanostructures and nanomaterials

EC Welch, JM Powell, TB Clevinger… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoscale materials have unique properties that make them especially useful for
biomedical diagnostic applications. Recent developments in nanoengineering have resulted …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for circulating tumor cell separation from whole blood

P Bankó, SY Lee, V Nagygyörgy, M Zrínyi… - Journal of hematology & …, 2019 - Springer
The importance of early cancer diagnosis and improved cancer therapy has been clear for
years and has initiated worldwide research towards new possibilities in the care strategy of …

Nanomaterial-based microfluidic systems for cancer biomarker detection: recent applications and future perspectives

Y Xiang, C Hu, G Wu, S Xu, Y Li - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Detecting cancer biomarkers (eg, circulating tumor cells, extracellular vehicles, nucleic
acids, and protein biomarkers) is vital for risk assessment and early diagnosis. Nanomaterial …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic-based technologies for CTC isolation: a review of 10 years of intense efforts towards liquid biopsy

L Descamps, D Le Roy, AL Deman - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The selection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) directly from blood as a real-time liquid
biopsy has received increasing attention over the past ten years, and further analysis of …

Bioinspired engineering of a multivalent aptamer‐functionalized nanointerface to enhance the capture and release of circulating tumor cells

Y Song, Y Shi, M Huang, W Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Circulating tumor cell (CTC)‐enrichment by using aptamers has a number of advantages,
but the issue of compromised binding affinities and stabilities in real samples hinders its …

Profiling circulating tumour cells and other biomarkers of invasive cancers

M Poudineh, EH Sargent, K Pantel… - Nature Biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
During cancer progression, many tumours shed circulating tumour cells (CTCs) and other
biomarkers into the bloodstream. The analysis of CTCs offers the prospect of collecting a …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging nanomaterials for improved biosensing

P Malik, R Gupta, V Malik, RK Ameta - Measurement: sensors, 2021 - Elsevier
Of late, biosensing is receiving mounting expectations due to a pressing need for swift and
accurate stimulus detection. Sensing via biological moieties has outmoded conventional …