Engineering long shelf life multi-layer biologically active surfaces on microfluidic devices for point of care applications
Nature Publishing Group, 2016
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Although materials and engineered surfaces are broadly utilized in creating assays and devices with wide applications in diagnostics, preservation of these immuno-functionalized surfaces on microfluidic devices remains a significant challenge to create reliable repeatable assays that would facilitate patient care in resource-constrained settings at the point-of-care (POC), where reliable electricity and refrigeration are lacking. To address this challenge, we present an innovative approach to stabilize surfaces on-chip with multiple layers of immunochemistry. The functionality of microfluidic devices using the presented method is evaluated at room temperature for up to 6-month shelf life. We integrated the preserved microfluidic devices with a lensless complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging platform to count CD4+ T cells from a drop of unprocessed whole blood targeting applications at the POC such as HIV management and monitoring. The developed immunochemistry stabilization method can potentially be applied broadly to other diagnostic immuno-assays such as viral load measurements, chemotherapy monitoring, and biomarker detection for cancer patients at the POC.
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Engineering long shelf life multi-layer biologically active surfaces on microfluidic devices for point of care applications
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Asghar, Waseem ; Yuksekkaya, Mehmet ; Shafiee, Hadi ; Zhang, Michael ; Ozen, Mehmet O. ; Inci, Fatih ; Kocakulak, Mustafa ; Demirci, Utkan |
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Veröffentlichung: | Nature Publishing Group, 2016 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep21163 |
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