This report illustrates the application of multidimensional flow cytometry to the identification of candidate stem progenitor populations in non small cell lung cancer and paired normal lung tissue.
Flow cytometry cancer stem cells.
Flow cytometry and fluorescence staining was used to quantify cancer stem cell like populations.
Until there are valid identifiers that visualize stem cells in vivo we rely upon flow cytometry to enrich for subpopulations with stem cell function.
How cancer stem cells can be identified using flow cytometry.
Seventeen paired tumor normal lung samples were collected at the time of surgical excision and processed immediately.
However data reporting styles for flow cytometric analyses are typically inconsistent creating challenges in comparing results across publications.
The origin of cscs is still under debate 5 6.
Flow cytometry in cancer stem cell analysis and separation burkhard greve 1 reinhard kelsch 2 kristina spaniol 3 hans theodor eich 1 martin go tte4 abstract in recent years a special type of cancer cell the cancer stem cell csc has been identified and characterized for different tumors.
It has been broadly applied to assess cell division apoptosis and to isolate cells including stem cells.
Qrt pcr was used to describe the mesenchymal gene signature of the tumor.
Cscs may be responsible for the re.
According to the cancer stem cell hypothesis a tumor consists of more differentiated highly proliferating cells which constitute the tumor bulk and sustain tumor growth and undifferentiated slow cycling cells with self renewing capacity the so called cancer stem cells cscs 2 4.
In our view clear reporting guidelines could improve reproducibility of stem cell analyses in.