Detection of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Status of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Carcinoma

Figure 1

Three types of CTCs from ESCC (fluorescent microscope). (a) Epithelial CTC stained by epithelial markers (red dots); (b) epithelial-mesenchymal-mixed CTC stained by epithelial markers (red dots) and mesenchymal markers (green dots); (c) mesenchymal CTC stained by mesenchymal markers (green dots).