Abstract:
A cell-trapping system according to one embodiment of the present invention is a cell-trapping system which traps specific cells in blood by passing the blood from a first principal surface side of a filter with a plurality of through-holes formed across a thickness of a sheet toward a second principal surface side opposed to the first principal surface, wherein a linear velocity of the blood at a point in time when the blood passes through the filter is 1 cm/min to 40 cm/min, an aperture ratio of the filter is 3% to 10%, the plurality of through-holes disposed in the filter each have a rectangular shape or a rounded-corner rectangular shape, and a mean of minor pore diameters of the plurality of through-holes on the first principal surface side is 7.0 μm to 10.0 μm.
Abstract:
Provided are a cancer cell-trapping metal filter which has a high opening ratio, a cancer cell-trapping metal filter sheet, a cancer cell-trapping device using the cancer cell-trapping filter, and manufacturing methods therefor.According to a cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1, openings of connected through-holes 12 that are formed in a metal sheet 11 have a wave shape, and thus it is possible to extract a CTC from other components by utilizing a hole diameter on a short-side side of the openings, and it is possible to make the connected through-holes be closer to each other due to the wave shape while maintaining a CTC trapping ability. Accordingly, it is possible to further improve the opening ratio in the cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1.
Abstract:
A metal filter includes a plurality of through holes. An opening shape of each of the plurality of through holes is a rectangle or rounded-rectangle and a length of a short side of the rectangle or a rounded rectangle is 5 to 15 μm. A method for concentrating cancer cells using the metal filter includes separating cancer cells from blood and blood cell constituents by passing blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets through the plurality of through holes while capturing cancer cells to concentrate the cancer cells.
Abstract:
A biomolecule capturing filter, comprising a gold plating on the surface of a biomolecule capturing filter made of a metal other than gold, the gold plating being electroless gold plating is disclosed.
Abstract:
Disclosed is to isolate cancer cells trapped on a filter without any damage.In a cancer cell isolation device (1), cancer cells X trapped on a filter (100) are captured by a camera (30) as an image capturing unit, and the cancer cells X are carried one by one by using a handling unit (40) while the filter (100) and a storage container (200) are moved by an X-axis movement stand (14), a Y-axis movement stand (16), and a Z-axis movement stand (18) as movement units while the captured image is output from an output unit (32). Accordingly, it is possible to isolate the cancer cells on the filter without damaging the cancer cells and hence to appropriately perform an observation or the like.