"Stealth dissemination" of macrophage-tumor cell fusions cultured from blood of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

• Gary A. Clawson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gac4@psu.edu, gac4gac4@gmail.com

  Affiliation Gittlen Cancer Research Laboratories and the Department of Pathology, Hershey Medical Center (HMC), Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Hershey, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4832-9193

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• Gail L. Matters,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, HMC, PSU, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Ping Xin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Gittlen Cancer Research Laboratories and the Department of Pathology, Hershey Medical Center (HMC), Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Christopher McGovern,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, HMC, PSU, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Eric Wafula,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Eberly College, University Park (UP), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Claude dePamphilis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Eberly College, University Park (UP), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Morgan Meckley,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Gittlen Cancer Research Laboratories and the Department of Pathology, Hershey Medical Center (HMC), Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Joyce Wong,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, HMC, PSU, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Luke Stewart,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Applications Support, Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Christopher D’Jamoos,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Applications Support, Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Naomi Altman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Eberly College, UP, PSU, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Yuka Imamura Kawasawa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, HMC, PSU, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Zhen Du,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Gittlen Cancer Research Laboratories and the Department of Pathology, Hershey Medical Center (HMC), Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Loren Honaas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Eberly College, University Park (UP), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Thomas Abraham

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neural & Behavioral Sciences and Microscopy Imaging Facility, HMC, PSU, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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