TY - JOUR
T1 - Finger-actuated, self-contained immunoassay cassettes
AU - Qiu, Xianbo
AU - Thompson, Jason A.
AU - Chen, Zongyuan
AU - Liu, Changchun
AU - Chen, Dafeng
AU - Ramprasad, Sudhir
AU - Mauk, Michael G.
AU - Ongagna, Serge
AU - Barber, Cheryl
AU - Abrams, William R.
AU - Malamud, Daniel
AU - Corstjens, Paul L.A.M.
AU - Bau, Haim H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The research was funded, in part, by National Institute of Health Grants U01-DE-017855 and U01-DE-017788, and National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program Grant DGE-0221664 to JAT. The samples used in this study were collected by the Women's Interagency HIV Study and its associated Collaborative Study Groups. Dr. David Walt's group at Tufts University provided the Illumina chiplet and the reagents and protocols to carry out the microbead array tests. Dr. Timothy Blicharz (a graduate of Walt's group) assisted with the microbead detection assay. Ms. Mian Qin provided insights into the mixing process in the cassette.
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - The building blocks for an inexpensive, disposable, luminescence-based microfluidic immunoassay cassette are described, and their integration in a point-of-care diagnostic system is demonstrated. Fluid motion in the cassette is driven by depressing finger-actuated pouches. All reagents needed for the immunoassay can be stored in the cassette in liquid form. Prior to use, the cassette consists of two separate parts. A top storage component contains pouches, sealed storage chambers, a metering chamber, and needle seats. The bottom processing component contains connection needles, a mixing chamber, and a detection chamber with immobilized proteins. Subsequent to sample introduction, the storage and processing components are mated. The needles form hydraulic connections between the two parts and, in some cases, close valves. The pouches are then actuated sequentially to induce flow of various reagents and facilitate process operations. The cassette is compatible with different detection modalities. Both a cassette with immunochromatographic-based detection and a cassette with microbead-based detection were constructed and evaluated. The immunochromatographic cassette was used to detect antibodies to HIV in saliva samples. The bead-based cassette was used to detect the proinflammatory chemokine IL-8. The experimental data demonstrates good repeatability and reasonable sensitivity.
AB - The building blocks for an inexpensive, disposable, luminescence-based microfluidic immunoassay cassette are described, and their integration in a point-of-care diagnostic system is demonstrated. Fluid motion in the cassette is driven by depressing finger-actuated pouches. All reagents needed for the immunoassay can be stored in the cassette in liquid form. Prior to use, the cassette consists of two separate parts. A top storage component contains pouches, sealed storage chambers, a metering chamber, and needle seats. The bottom processing component contains connection needles, a mixing chamber, and a detection chamber with immobilized proteins. Subsequent to sample introduction, the storage and processing components are mated. The needles form hydraulic connections between the two parts and, in some cases, close valves. The pouches are then actuated sequentially to induce flow of various reagents and facilitate process operations. The cassette is compatible with different detection modalities. Both a cassette with immunochromatographic-based detection and a cassette with microbead-based detection were constructed and evaluated. The immunochromatographic cassette was used to detect antibodies to HIV in saliva samples. The bead-based cassette was used to detect the proinflammatory chemokine IL-8. The experimental data demonstrates good repeatability and reasonable sensitivity.
KW - Consecutive flow
KW - Finger-actuation
KW - Functionalized microbead array
KW - Immunoassay
KW - Immunochromatography
KW - Microfluidic
KW - Needle
KW - Pouch
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U2 - 10.1007/s10544-009-9334-4
DO - 10.1007/s10544-009-9334-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 19597994
AN - SCOPUS:70549105083
SN - 1387-2176
VL - 11
SP - 1175
EP - 1186
JO - Biomedical Microdevices
JF - Biomedical Microdevices
IS - 6
ER -