Blood analyte sensing using fluorescent dye-loaded red blood cells

Sarah C. Ritter; Xiaole Shao; Nicholas Cooley; Mark A. Milanick; Timothy E. Glass; Kenith E. Meissner

doi:10.1117/12.2042107

28 February 2014 Blood analyte sensing using fluorescent dye-loaded red blood cells

Sarah C. Ritter, Xiaole Shao, Nicholas Cooley, Mark A. Milanick, Timothy E. Glass, Kenith E. Meissner

Proceedings Volume 8951, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XIV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics; 895109 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042107
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Measurement of blood analytes provides crucial information about a patient’s health. Some such analytes, such as glucose in the case of diabetes, require long-term or near-continuous monitoring for proper disease management. However, current monitoring techniques are far from ideal: multiple-per-day finger stick tests are inconvenient and painful for the patient; implantable sensors have short functional life spans (i.e., 3-7 days). Due to analyte transporters on red blood cell (RBC) membranes that equilibrate intracellular and extracellular analyte levels, RBCs serve as an attractive alternative for encapsulating analyte sensors. Once reintroduced to the blood stream, the functionalized RBCs may continue to live for the remainder of their life span (120 days for humans). They are biodegradable and biocompatible, thereby eliminating the immune system response common for many implanted devices. The proposed sensing system utilizes the ability of the RBCs to swell in response to a decrease in the osmolarity of the extracellular solution. Just before lysis, they develop small pores on the scale of tens of nanometers. While at low temperature, analyte-sensitive dyes in the extracellular solution diffuse into the perforated RBCs and become entrapped upon restoration of temperature and osmolarity. Since the fluorescent signal from the entrapped dye reports on changes in the analyte level of the extracellular solution via the RBC transporters, interactions between the RBCs and the dye are critical to the efficacy of this technique. In this work, we study the use of a near infrared pH sensitive dye encapsulated within RBCs and assess the ability to measure dye fluorescence in vivo.

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Sarah C. Ritter, Xiaole Shao, Nicholas Cooley, Mark A. Milanick, Timothy E. Glass, and Kenith E. Meissner "Blood analyte sensing using fluorescent dye-loaded red blood cells", Proc. SPIE 8951, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XIV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, 895109 (28 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042107

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