Immuno-pillar chip: a new platform for rapid and easy-to-use immunoassay
Immuno-pillar chip: a new platform for rapid and easy-to-use immunoassay
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DOI:
10.1039/c0lc00241k
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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6.1
通讯作者:
Baba, Yoshinobu
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作者:
Ikami, Mai;Kawakami, Ayako;Baba, Yoshinobu
We present a new rapid and easy-to-use immunoassay chip which we have named the immuno-pillar chip. It has hydrogel pillars, fabricated inside a microchannel, with many antibody molecules immobilized onto 1 mu m diameter polystyrene beads. To evaluate the chip performance, we applied it to the sandwich assay of C-reactive protein (CRP), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a cardiac and inflammation marker, tumors and prostate cancer markers, respectively. For detection of disease markers, we confirmed the chip provides rapid analysis (total assay time of about 4 min) with high sensitivity, it is easy-to-use (no special skills are needed), and it uses small volumes of the sample and reagent (0.25 mu L each). Moreover, multiplex assay for three biomarkers was also possible. Additionally, the immuno-pillar chip has a big advantage of having hardly any influence on the assay results even if the introduction quantities of the sample or reagents are different.