1. Integrated Electrochemical Aptamer Biosensing and Colorimetric pH Monitoring via Hydrogel Microneedle Assays for Assessing Antibiotic Treatment.
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Keyvani F, GhavamiNejad P, Saleh MA, Soltani M, Zhao Y, Sadeghzadeh S, Shakeri A, Chelle P, Zheng H, Rahman FA, Mahshid S, Quadrilatero J, Rao PPN, Edginton A, and Poudineh M
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Current methods for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) have a long turnaround time as they involve collecting patients' blood samples followed by transferring the samples to medical laboratories where sample processing and analysis are performed. To enable real-time and minimally invasive TDM, a microneedle (MN) biosensor to monitor the levels of two important antibiotics, vancomycin (VAN) and gentamicin (GEN) is developed. The MN biosensor is composed of a hydrogel MN (HMN), and an aptamer-functionalized flexible (Flex) electrode, named HMN-Flex. The HMN extracts dermal interstitial fluid (ISF) and transfers it to the Flex electrode where sensing of the target antibiotics happens. The HMN-Flex performance is validated ex vivo using skin models as well as in vivo in live rat animal models. Data is leveraged from the HMN-Flex system to construct pharmacokinetic profiles for VAN and GEN and compare these profiles with conventional blood-based measurements. Additionally, to track pH and monitor patient's response during antibiotic treatment, an HMN is developed that employs a colorimetric method to detect changes in the pH, named HMN-pH assay, whose performance has been validated both in vitro and in vivo. Further, multiplexed antibiotic and pH detection is achieved by simultaneously employing the HMN-pH and HMN-Flex on live animals., (© 2024 The Author(s). Advanced Science published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH.)
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- 2024
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