A brief review on microfluidic platforms for hormones detection
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- 作者：Jayan Ozhikandathil ; Simona Badilescu…
- 关键词：Microfluidics ; Lab ; on ; a ; chip ; Pancreatic islets ; Insulin ; Thyroid hormone ; Bovine growth hormone
- 刊名：Journal of Neural Transmission
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：124
- 期：1
- 页码：47-55
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- 刊物类别：Medicine
- 刊物主题：Neurology; Psychiatry; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Neurosciences;
- 出版者：Springer Vienna
- ISSN：1435-1463
- 卷排序：124
文摘
Lab-on-chip technology is attracting great interest due to its potential as miniaturized devices that can automate and integrate many sample-handling steps, minimize consumption of reagent and samples, have short processing time and enable multiplexed analysis. Microfluidic devices have demonstrated their potential for a broad range of applications in life sciences, including point-of-care diagnostics and personalized medicine, based on the routine diagnosis of levels of hormones, cancer markers, and various metabolic products in blood, serum, etc. Microfluidics offers an adaptable platform that can facilitate cell culture as well as monitor their activity and control the cellular environment. Signaling molecules released from cells such as neurotransmitters and hormones are important in assessing the health of cells and the effect of drugs on their functions. In this review, we provide an insight into the state-of-art applications of microfluidics for monitoring of hormones released by cells. In our works, we have demonstrated efficient detection methods for bovine growth hormones using nano and microphotonics integrated microfluidics devices. The bovine growth hormone can be used as a growth promoter in dairy farming to enhance the milk and meat production. In the recent years, a few attempts have been reported on developing very sensitive, fast and low-cost methods of detection of bovine growth hormone using micro devices. This paper reviews the current state-of-art of detection and analysis of hormone using integrated optical micro and nanofluidics systems. In addition, the paper also focuses on various lab-on-a-chip technologies reported recently, and their benefits for screening growth hormones in milk.