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Kuzovlev AN, Evseev AK, Goroncharovskaya IV, Shabanov AK, Petrikov SS. Optically transparent electrodes to study living cells: A mini review. Biotechnol Bioeng 2021; 118:2393-2400. [PMID: 33830518 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The use of electrochemical methods to study living systems, including cells, has been of interest to researchers for a long time. Thus, controlling the polarization of the electrode contacting living cells, one can influence, for example, their proliferation or the synthesis of specific proteins. Moreover, the electrochemical approach formed the basis of the biocompatibility improvement of the materials contacting with body tissues that use in carbon hemosorbents and implants development. It became possible to reach a fundamentally new level in the study of cell activity with the introduction of optically transparent electrodes in this area. The advantage of the using of optically transparent electrodes is the possibility of simultaneous analysis of living cells by electrochemical and microscopic methods. The use of such materials allowed approaching to the study of the influence of the electrode potential on adhesion activity and morphology of the different cell types (HeLa cells, endothelial cell, etc.) more detailed. There are a negligible number of publications in this area despite the advantages of the usage of optically transparent electrodes to study living cells. This mini-review is devoted to some aspects of the interaction of living cells with conductive materials and current advances in the use of optically transparent electrodes for the study of living cells, as well as the prospects for their use in cellular technologies.
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- Artem N Kuzovlev
- Laboratory of Clinical Pathophysiology of Critical States, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Russia
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- Intensive Care Unit, N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russia
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- Intensive Care Unit, N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Clinical Pathophysiology of Critical States, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Russia.,Intensive Care Unit, N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russia
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- Intensive Care Unit, N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russia
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Pal A, Gope A, Iannacchione G. Temperature and Concentration Dependence of Human Whole Blood and Protein Drying Droplets. Biomolecules 2021; 11:231. [PMID: 33562850 PMCID: PMC7915023 DOI: 10.3390/biom11020231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Revised: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The drying of bio-colloidal droplets can be used in many medical and forensic applications. The whole human blood is the most complex bio-colloid system, whereas bovine serum albumin (BSA) is the simplest. This paper focuses on the drying characteristics and the final morphology of these two bio-colloids. The experiments were conducted by varying their initial concentrations, and the solutions were dried under various controlled substrate temperatures using optical and scanning electron microscopy. The droplet parameters (the contact angle, the fluid front, and the first-order image statistics) reveal the drying process's unique features. Interestingly, both BSA and blood drying droplets' contact angle measurements show evidence of a concentration-driven transition as the behavior changes from non-monotonic to monotonic decrease. This result indicates that this transition behavior is not limited to multi-component bio-colloid (blood) only, but may be a phenomenon of a bio-colloidal solution containing a large number of interacting components. The high dilution of blood behaves like the BSA solution. The ring-like deposition, the crack morphology, and the microstructures suggest that the components have enough time to segregate and deposit onto the substrate under ambient conditions. However, there is insufficient time for evaporative-driven segregation to occur at elevated temperatures, as expected.
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- Anusuya Pal
- Order-Disorder Phenomena Laboratory, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA;
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- Department of English, Tezpur University, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India;
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- Order-Disorder Phenomena Laboratory, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA;
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Logviniuk D, Fridman M. Serum Prevents Interactions between Antimicrobial Amphiphilic Aminoglycosides and Plasma Membranes. ACS Infect Dis 2020; 6:3212-3223. [PMID: 33174428 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Antimicrobial cationic amphiphiles have broad-spectrum activity, and microbes do not readily develop resistance to these agents, highlighting their clinical and industrial potential. Cationic amphiphiles perturb the integrity of membranes leading to cell death, and the lack of discrimination between microbial and mammalian plasma membranes is thought to be one of the main barriers of using these agents for the treatment of systemic infections. Here, we describe the synthesis and study of 20 antimicrobial cationic amphiphiles that are derivatives of the aminoglycoside nebramine with different numbers of alkyl chain ethers that differ in length and degree of unsaturation. We determined antifungal activities and evaluated hemoglobin release from red blood cells as a measure of membrane selectivity and analyzed how serum influences these activities. Microscopic images revealed morphological transformations of red blood cells from the normal double-disc shape to empty ghost cells upon treatment with the cationic amphiphiles. Antifungal activity, hemolysis, and morphological changes in red blood cells decreased as the percentage of serum in the culture medium was increased. In images of red blood cells treated with fluorescently labeled amphiphilic nebramine probes, the accumulation of the cationic amphiphiles in the membranes decreased as serum concentration increased. This suggests that, in addition to its known effect of preventing the deformability of red blood cells, serum prevents interactions between cationic amphiphiles and the plasma membrane. The results of this study indicate that biological activities of cationic amphiphiles are abrogated in serum. Thus, these agents are suitable for external and industrial uses but probably not for effective treatment of systemic infections.
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- Dana Logviniuk
- School of Chemistry, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- School of Chemistry, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Pal A, Gope A, Obayemi JD, Iannacchione GS. Concentration-driven phase transition and self-assembly in drying droplets of diluting whole blood. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18908. [PMID: 33144671 PMCID: PMC7609771 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76082-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Multi-colloidal systems exhibit a variety of structural and functional complexity owing to their ability to interact amongst different components into self-assembled structures. This paper presents experimental confirmations that reveal an interesting sharp phase transition during the drying state and in the dried film as a function of diluting concentrations ranging from 100% (undiluted whole blood) to 12.5% (diluted concentrations). An additional complementary contact angle measurement exhibits a monotonic decrease with a peak as a function of drying. This peak is related to a change in visco-elasticity that decreases with dilution, and disappears at the dilution concentration for the observed phase transition equivalent to 62% (v/v). This unique behavior is clearly commensurate with the optical image statistics and morphological analysis; and it is driven by the decrease in the interactions between various components within this bio-colloid. The implications of these phenomenal systems may address many open-ended questions of complex hierarchical structures.
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- Anusuya Pal
- Order-Disorder Phenomena Laboratory, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 01609, USA.
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- Department of English, Tezpur University, Tezpur, 784028, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 01609, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 01609, USA
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- Order-Disorder Phenomena Laboratory, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 01609, USA
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Mukhopadhyay M, Ray R, Ayushman M, Sood P, Bhattacharyya M, Sarkar D, DasGupta S. Interfacial energy driven distinctive pattern formation during the drying of blood droplets. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 573:307-316. [PMID: 32289626 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Dried blood droplet morphology may potentially serve as an alternative biomarker for several patho-physiological conditions. The deviant properties of the red blood cells and the abnormal composition of diseased samples are hypothesized to manifest through unique cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions leading to different morphological patterns. Identifying distinctive morphological trait from a large sample size and proposing confirmatory explanations are necessary to establish the signatory pattern as a potential biomarker to differentiate healthy and diseased samples. EXPERIMENTS Comprehensive experimental investigation was undertaken to identify the signatory dried blood droplet patterns. The corresponding image based analysis was in turn used to differentiate the blood samples with a specific haematological disorder "Thalassaemia" from healthy ones. Relevant theoretical analysis explored the role of cell-surface and cell-cell interactions pertinent to the formation of the distinct dried patterns. FINDINGS The differences observed in the dried blood patterns, specifically the radial crack lengths, were found to eventuate from the differences in the overall interaction energies of the system. A first-generation theoretical analysis, with the mean field approximation, also confirmed similar outcome and justified the role of the different physico-chemical properties of red blood cells in diseased samples resulting in shorter radial cracks.
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- Manikuntala Mukhopadhyay
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Pin 721302 West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Haematology & Transfusion Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, Pin 700073 West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Pin 721302 West Bengal, India
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Pin 721302 West Bengal, India
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- Institute of Haematology & Transfusion Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, Pin 700073 West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta, Pin 700009 West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Pin 721302 West Bengal, India.
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Jiang Y, Li Y, Richard C, Scherman D, Liu Y. Hemocompatibility investigation and improvement of near-infrared persistent luminescent nanoparticle ZnGa2O4:Cr3+ by surface PEGylation. J Mater Chem B 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9tb00378a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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ZnGa2O4:Cr3+ hemocompatibility was systematically investigated from the aspects of hemolysis, erythrocyte morphology, coagulation and complement system activation, and greatly improved by surface PEGylation.
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- Ying Jiang
- Key laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry (Southwest University)
- Ministry of Education, Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- School of Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
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- Central Laboratory of Yongchuan Hospital
- Chongqing Medical University
- Chongqing 402160
- China
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- Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé (UTCBS)
- UMR 8258 CNRS
- U 1022 Inserm
- Université Paris Descartes
- Sorbonne Paris Cité
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- Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé (UTCBS)
- UMR 8258 CNRS
- U 1022 Inserm
- Université Paris Descartes
- Sorbonne Paris Cité
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- Key laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry (Southwest University)
- Ministry of Education, Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- School of Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
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