Clinical microfluidics for neutrophil genomics and proteomics
Open Access
- 29 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 16 (9), 1042-1047
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2205
Abstract
Standard methods of neutrophil isolation require skilled personnel, are time consuming and use large blood volumes. Kotz and his colleagues have developed a rapid microfluidic chip-based approach for rapidly isolating neutrophils directly from whole blood with 'on-chip' processing for mRNA and protein isolation. The device, which yields sufficient quantities and purities for downstream genomic or proteomic analysis, was validated in a multicenter clinical study of the immune response to severe trauma and burn injury. Neutrophils have key roles in modulating the immune response. We present a robust methodology for rapidly isolating neutrophils directly from whole blood with 'on-chip' processing for mRNA and protein isolation for genomics and proteomics. We validate this device with an ex vivo stimulation experiment and by comparison with standard bulk isolation methodologies. Last, we implement this tool as part of a near-patient blood processing system within a multi-center clinical study of the immune response to severe trauma and burn injury. The preliminary results from a small cohort of subjects in our study and healthy controls show a unique time-dependent gene expression pattern clearly demonstrating the ability of this tool to discriminate temporal transcriptional events of neutrophils within a clinical setting.Keywords
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