Real-time fish stress visualization came true：A novel multi-stage color-switching wireless biosensor system.

An optical communication type biosensor system has been developed which can measure blood glucose concentration, which is a stress indicator of fish, in real-time while fish swimming freely. However, this system is hard to make instant acknowledgment of fish stress level which has to contain an unavoidable delay in the judgment. In this research, we aimed to develop a novel stress visualization system which can quickly judge the levels for fish stress response instantly based on a color changeable LED while another LED was designed to send data. The present system is based on the principle of converting the output current value measured by the glucose biosensor corresponding to the stress response into a voltage value. Then, the color and stress switching points of the LED (Red, Yellow, Green) were decided based on the voltage value gained from the biosensor which mentioned above. Furthermore, we attempted to use our biosensor system to make real-time monitoring of fish stress in vivo. As results, the proposed sensor can make real-time measurement of glucose and shows a great response to those of actual fish sample in the range from 35.36 to 300 mg dl ^-1 (R = 0.9899). When the glucose concentration in the collected sample was switched to the concentration pre-sett, it was successful to switch the LED color according to the gained voltage value both in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, when monitoring the stress responses of the fish in vivo, color switching corresponding to the sensor output current value was observed successfully.
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