Bile as a liquid biopsy matrix: potential applications and limitations
Maria Arechederra,
Maria Rullán,
Daniel Oyón
et al.
Abstract:Hunting for tumoral material in body fluids, traditionally in blood, the so-called liquid biopsy is set to revolutionize the diagnosis and management of oncological patients. However, other biofluids can also be considered as alternative sources of biomarkers to provide clinically valuable information for multiple diseases. This is the case of bile, a fluid produced in the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and excreted to the duodenum, which complex composition is known to change in different pathological cond… Show more
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