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Liu Y, Matharu Z, Howland MC, Revzin A, Simonian AL. Affinity and enzyme-based biosensors: recent advances and emerging applications in cell analysis and point-of-care testing. Anal Bioanal Chem 2012; 404:1181-96. [PMID: 22722742 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-6149-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2012] [Revised: 05/17/2012] [Accepted: 05/24/2012] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The applications of biosensors range from environmental testing and biowarfare agent detection to clinical testing and cell analysis. In recent years, biosensors have become increasingly prevalent in clinical testing and point-of-care testing. This is driven in part by the desire to decrease the cost of health care, to shift some of the analytical tests from centralized facilities to "frontline" physicians and nurses, and to obtain more precise information more quickly about the health status of a patient. This article gives an overview of recent advances in the field of biosensors, focusing on biosensors based on enzymes, aptamers, antibodies, and phages. In addition, this article attempts to describe efforts to apply these biosensors to clinical testing and cell analysis.
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- Ying Liu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Lafleur L, Stevens D, McKenzie K, Ramachandran S, Spicar-Mihalic P, Singhal M, Arjyal A, Osborn J, Kauffman P, Yager P, Lutz B. Progress toward multiplexed sample-to-result detection in low resource settings using microfluidic immunoassay cards. LAB ON A CHIP 2012; 12:1119-27. [PMID: 22311085 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc20751f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In many low resource settings multiple diseases are endemic. There is a need for appropriate multi-analyte diagnostics capable of differentiating between diseases that cause similar clinical symptoms. The work presented here was part of a larger effort to develop a microfluidic point-of-care system, the DxBox, for sample-to-result differential diagnosis of infections that present with high rapid-onset fever. Here we describe a platform that detects disease-specific antigens and IgM antibodies. The disposable microfluidic cards are based on a flow-through membrane immunoassay carried out on porous nitrocellulose, which provides rapid diffusion for short assay times and a high surface area for visual detection of colored assay spots. Fluid motion and on-card valves were driven by a pneumatic system and we present designs for using pneumatic control to carry out assay functions. Pneumatic actuation, while having the potential advantage of inexpensive and robust hardware, introduced bubbles that interfered with fluidic control and affected assay results. The cards performed all sample preparation steps including plasma filtration from whole blood, sample and reagent aliquoting for the two parallel assays, sample dilution, and IgG removal for the IgM assays. We demonstrated the system for detection of the malarial pfHRPII antigen (spiked) and IgM antibodies to Salmonella Typhi LPS (patient plasma samples). All reagents were stored on card in dry form; only the sample and buffer were required to run the tests. Here we detail the development of this platform and discuss its strengths and weaknesses.
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- Lisa Lafleur
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Hosokawa M, Asami M, Nakamura S, Yoshino T, Tsujimura N, Takahashi M, Nakasono S, Tanaka T, Matsunaga T. Leukocyte counting from a small amount of whole blood using a size-controlled microcavity array. Biotechnol Bioeng 2012; 109:2017-24. [PMID: 22367741 DOI: 10.1002/bit.24471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2011] [Revised: 01/31/2012] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Absolute counting of total leukocytes or specific subsets within small amounts of whole blood is difficult due to a lack of techniques that enable separation of all leukocytes from limited amounts of whole blood. In this study, a microfluidic device equipped with a size-controlled microcavity array for highly efficient separation of leukocytes from submicroliters of whole blood was developed. The microcavity array can separate leukocytes from whole blood based on differences in the size and deformability between leukocytes and other blood cells. Leukocytes recovered on aligned microcavities were continuously processed for image-based immunophenotypic analysis. Our device successfully recovered over 90% of leukocytes in 1 µL of whole blood without pretreatment such as density gradient centrifugation or erythrocyte lysis. In addition, the proposed system successfully performed absolute enumeration of human CD4(+) and CD8(+) leukocytes from 1 µL of whole blood, and the obtained data showed good correlation with conventional flow cytometric analysis. Our microfluidic device has great potential as a tool for a point-of-care leukocyte analysis system.
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- Masahito Hosokawa
- Division of Biotechnology and Life Science, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan
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Hui W, Shi F, Yan K, Peng M, Cheng X, Luo Y, Chen X, Roy VAL, Cui Y, Wang Z. Fe3O4/Au/Fe3O4 nanoflowers exhibiting tunable saturation magnetization and enhanced bioconjugation. NANOSCALE 2012; 4:747-751. [PMID: 22193883 DOI: 10.1039/c2nr11489e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Composite nanoparticles have proved to be promising in a wide range of biotechnological applications. In this paper, we report on a facile method to synthesize novel Fe(3)O(4)/Au/Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles (nanoflowers) that integrate hybrid components and surface types. We demonstrate that relative to conventional nanoparticles with core/shell configuration, such nanoflowers not only retain their surface plasmon property but also allow for 170% increase in the saturation magnetization and 23% increase in the conjugation efficiency due to the synergistic co-operation between the hierarchical structures. Moreover, we demonstrate that the magnetic properties of such composite nanoparticles can be tuned by controlling the size of additional petals (Fe(3)O(4) phase). These novel building blocks could open up novel and exciting vistas in nanomedicine for broad applications such as biosensing, cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, targeted delivery, and imaging.
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- Wenli Hui
- The College of Life Sciences Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Tarn MD, Pamme N. Microfluidic platforms for performing surface-based clinical assays. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2012; 11:711-20. [PMID: 21902533 DOI: 10.1586/erm.11.59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The need for fast, specific and portable diagnostic systems for clinical assays has, in recent years, led to an explosion of research into microfluidic chip-based immunoassays towards rapid point-of-care analysis. Such devices exploit small dimensions, superior fluidic control and low reagent volumes to allow a number of clinically important procedures to be achieved with improvements on conventional methods, many of which rely on the surface-based binding of antigens to antibodies. Here, we discuss recent developments and innovations in the area of on-chip surface-based immunoassays and provide an outlook on the potential of such platforms for future diagnostics.
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- Mark D Tarn
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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Zhang M, Dai W, Yan M, Ge S, Yu J, Song X, Xu W. Ultrasensitive electrochemiluminescence immunosensor using PtAg@carbon nanocrystals composites as labels and carbon nanotubes-chitosan/gold nanoparticles as enhancer. Analyst 2012; 137:2112-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c2an35186b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Li Y, Zhang D, Feng X, Xu Y, Liu BF. A microsecond microfluidic mixer for characterizing fast biochemical reactions. Talanta 2011; 88:175-80. [PMID: 22265484 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2011.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2011] [Revised: 10/18/2011] [Accepted: 10/22/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Analysis of fast biochemical reactions requires rapid mixing of solutions. Micromixers can achieve uniform mixing of solutions in a short time and have been recognized as an attractive tool to analyze fast reactions. However, it is still a challenge to design mixers with simple structure and short dead time. Here, a zigzag turbulent micromixer was developed with a rapid mixing time of 16 μs at sample consumption of 10 μL/s. Numerical simulations and confocal imaging validated this result. Application of the chemiluminescence (CL) reaction demonstrated the use of this mixer in analyzing the kinetic process of the CL reaction. In comparison to the turbulent micromixers reported previously, this zigzag mixer has advantages of short dead time, simple structure and low sample consumption. We anticipate the developed mixer to be a useful tool in studying biochemical kinetics or be integrated to Lab-on-a-chip device as a pretreatment functional unit.
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- Ying Li
- Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics - Hubei Bioinformatics & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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Chen L, Liu X, Su B, Li J, Jiang L, Han D, Wang S. Aptamer-mediated efficient capture and release of T lymphocytes on nanostructured surfaces. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2011; 23:4376-4380. [PMID: 21882263 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201102435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2011] [Revised: 07/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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- Li Chen
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
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Zhu H, Mavandadi S, Coskun AF, Yaglidere O, Ozcan A. Optofluidic fluorescent imaging cytometry on a cell phone. Anal Chem 2011; 83:6641-7. [PMID: 21774454 DOI: 10.1021/ac201587a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Fluorescent microscopy and flow cytometry are widely used tools in biomedical sciences. Cost-effective translation of these technologies to remote and resource-limited environments could create new opportunities especially for telemedicine applications. Toward this direction, here we demonstrate the integration of imaging cytometry and fluorescent microscopy on a cell phone using a compact, lightweight, and cost-effective optofluidic attachment. In this cell-phone-based optofluidic imaging cytometry platform, fluorescently labeled particles or cells of interest are continuously delivered to our imaging volume through a disposable microfluidic channel that is positioned above the existing camera unit of the cell phone. The same microfluidic device also acts as a multilayered optofluidic waveguide and efficiently guides our excitation light, which is butt-coupled from the side facets of our microfluidic channel using inexpensive light-emitting diodes. Since the excitation of the sample volume occurs through guided waves that propagate perpendicular to the detection path, our cell-phone camera can record fluorescent movies of the specimens as they are flowing through the microchannel. The digital frames of these fluorescent movies are then rapidly processed to quantify the count and the density of the labeled particles/cells within the target solution of interest. We tested the performance of our cell-phone-based imaging cytometer by measuring the density of white blood cells in human blood samples, which provided a decent match to a commercially available hematology analyzer. We further characterized the imaging quality of the same platform to demonstrate a spatial resolution of ~2 μm. This cell-phone-enabled optofluidic imaging flow cytometer could especially be useful for rapid and sensitive imaging of bodily fluids for conducting various cell counts (e.g., toward monitoring of HIV+ patients) or rare cell analysis as well as for screening of water quality in remote and resource-poor settings.
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- Hongying Zhu
- Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Boyle DS, Hawkins KR, Steele MS, Singhal M, Cheng X. Emerging technologies for point-of-care CD4 T-lymphocyte counting. Trends Biotechnol 2011; 30:45-54. [PMID: 21798607 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2011.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Revised: 06/01/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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A CD4 T-lymphocyte count determines eligibility for antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients recently diagnosed with HIV and also monitors the efficacy of ART treatment thereafter. ART slows the progression of HIV to AIDS. In the developing world, CD4 tests are often performed in centralized laboratories, typically in urban areas. The expansion of ART programs into rural areas has created a need for rapid CD4 counting because logistical barriers can delay the timely dissemination of test results and affect patient care through delay in intervention or loss of follow-up care. CD4 measurement at the point-of-care (POC) in rural areas could help the facilitation of ART and monitoring of treatment. This review highlights recent technology developments with applications towards determining CD4 counts at the POC.
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- David S Boyle
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, WA 98121, USA.
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Microfluidic devices exhibit a great promising development in clinical diagnosis and disease screening due to their advantages of precise controlling of fluid flow, requirement of miniamount sample, rapid reaction speed and convenient integration. In this paper, the improvements of microfluidic diagnostic technologies in recent years are reviewed. The applications and developments of on-chip disease marker detection, microfluidic cell selection and cell drug metabolism, and diagnostic micro-devices are discussed.
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- Haifang Li
- School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Watkins NN, Sridhar S, Cheng X, Chen GD, Toner M, Rodriguez W, Bashir R. A microfabricated electrical differential counter for the selective enumeration of CD4+ T lymphocytes. LAB ON A CHIP 2011; 11:1437-47. [PMID: 21283908 PMCID: PMC3141315 DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00556h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We have developed a microfabricated biochip that enumerates CD4+ T lymphocytes from leukocyte populations obtained from human blood samples using electrical impedance sensing and immunoaffinity chromatography. T cell counts are found by obtaining the difference between the number of leukocytes before and after depleting CD4+ T cells with immobilized antibodies in a capture chamber. This differential counting technique has been validated to analyze physiological concentrations of leukocytes with an accuracy of ∼9 cells per µL by passivating the capture chamber with bovine serum albumin. In addition, the counter provided T cell counts which correlated closely with an optical control (R(2) = 0.997) for CD4 cell concentrations ranging from approximately 100 to 700 cells per µL. We believe that this approach can be a promising method for bringing quantitative HIV/AIDS diagnostics to resource-poor regions in the world.
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- Nicholas N. Watkins
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Program of Bioengineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA
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- Surgical Services and Bio MEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Shiners Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Surgical Services and Bio MEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Shiners Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. ; Fax: +1-617-336-3298; Tel: +1-617-336-3299
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. ; Fax: +1-217-244-6375; Tel: +1-217-333-3097
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This article reviews existing methods for the isolation, fractionation, or capture of rare cells in microfluidic devices. Rare cell capture devices face the challenge of maintaining the efficiency standard of traditional bulk separation methods such as flow cytometers and immunomagnetic separators while requiring very high purity of the target cell population, which is typically already at very low starting concentrations. Two major classifications of rare cell capture approaches are covered: (1) non-electrokinetic methods (e.g., immobilization via antibody or aptamer chemistry, size-based sorting, and sheath flow and streamline sorting) are discussed for applications using blood cells, cancer cells, and other mammalian cells, and (2) electrokinetic (primarily dielectrophoretic) methods using both electrode-based and insulative geometries are presented with a view towards pathogen detection, blood fractionation, and cancer cell isolation. The included methods were evaluated based on performance criteria including cell type modeled and used, number of steps/stages, cell viability, and enrichment, efficiency, and/or purity. Major areas for improvement are increasing viability and capture efficiency/purity of directly processed biological samples, as a majority of current studies only process spiked cell lines or pre-diluted/lysed samples. Despite these current challenges, multiple advances have been made in the development of devices for rare cell capture and the subsequent elucidation of new biological phenomena; this article serves to highlight this progress as well as the electrokinetic and non-electrokinetic methods that can potentially be combined to improve performance in future studies.
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Gai H, Li Y, Yeung ES. Optical Detection Systems on Microfluidic Chips. MICROFLUIDICS 2011; 304:171-201. [DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Lin L, Chen H, Wei H, Wang F, Lin JM. On-chip sample pretreatment using a porous polymer monolithic column for solid-phase microextraction and chemiluminescence determination of catechins in green tea. Analyst 2011; 136:4260-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c1an15530j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Qi Y, Li B. A sensitive, label-free, aptamer-based biosensor using a gold nanoparticle-initiated chemiluminescence system. Chemistry 2010; 17:1642-8. [PMID: 21268167 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We report a label-free, aptamer-based chemiluminescent biosensor. The biosensor relies upon the catalytic activity of unmodified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on the luminol-H(2)O(2) chemiluminescence (CL) reaction, and the interaction of unmodified AuNPs with the aptamer. The unmodified AuNPs can effectively differentiate unstructured and folded aptamer. The binding of the aptamer with the target can induce the AuNP aggregation in the presence of 0.5 M NaCl, and after aggregation the catalytic activity of the AuNPs on the luminol-H(2)O(2) CL reaction is greatly enhanced. During the assay, no covalent functionalization of the AuNPs or aptamer is required. The detection limit of thrombin was estimated to be as low as 26 fM, and the sensitivity was more than 4 orders of magnitude better than that of known AuNP-based colorimetric methods for the detection of thrombin. This aptamer-based biosensor offers the advantages of being simple, cheap, rapid, and sensitive.
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- Yingying Qi
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, P.R. China
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Salieb-Beugelaar GB, Simone G, Arora A, Philippi A, Manz A. Latest developments in microfluidic cell biology and analysis systems. Anal Chem 2010; 82:4848-64. [PMID: 20462184 DOI: 10.1021/ac1009707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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