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. 2013 Apr 23;8(4):e61770. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061770

Figure 6. Size distribution of blood cells and various cancer cell lines.

Figure 6

Blood cells include white and red blood cells and the hematopoetic cell lines HL-60 and K-562. Cancer cell lines include prostate cancer cell lines PC3-9, colorectal cancer cell lines COLO-320 and SW-480, breast cancer cell lines SKBR-3, MCF7, MDA-231 and MDA-468. Distributions are normalized to unit area. Vertical lines indicate the median size for each cell type. Panel A shows the size distribution as determined using a Coulter pipette. Panel B shows the size distribution as determined using image analysis for MDA-231, SKBR-3, PC3-9, leukocytes (WBC) and CTC from patients with metastatic breast (CTC-B, solid line), colorectal (CTC-C, dotted line) or prostate (CTC-P, dashed line) cancer.