Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87040
Title: A Novel Microdevice for Rapid Neutrophil Purification and Phenotyping in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Tay, Hui Min
Dalan, Rinkoo
Li, Holden King Ho
Boehm, Bernhard Otto
Hou, Han Wei
Keywords: Blood Separation
Diabetes
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Tay, H. M., Dalan, R., Li, H. K. H., Boehm, B. O., & Hou, H. W. (2017). A Novel Microdevice for Rapid Neutrophil Purification and Phenotyping in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Small, 14(6), 1702832-.
Series/Report no.: Small
Abstract: Neutrophil dysfunction is strongly linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) pathophysiology, but the prognostic potential of neutrophil biomarkers remains largely unexplored due to arduous leukocyte isolation methods. Herein, a novel integrated microdevice is reported for single-step neutrophil sorting and phenotyping (chemotaxis and formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETosis)) using small blood volumes (fingerprick). Untouched neutrophils are purified on-chip from whole blood directly using biomimetic cell margination and affinity-based capture, and are exposed to preloaded chemoattractant or NETosis stimulant to initiate chemotaxis or NETosis, respectively. Device performance is first characterized using healthy and in vitro inflamed blood samples (tumor necrosis factor alpha, high glucose), followed by clinical risk stratification in a cohort of subjects with T2DM. Interestingly, "high-risk" T2DM patients characterized by severe chemotaxis impairment reveal significantly higher C-reactive protein levels and poor lipid metabolism characteristics as compared to "low-risk" subjects, and their neutrophil chemotaxis responses can be mitigated after in vitro metformin treatment. Overall, this unique and user-friendly microfluidics immune health profiling strategy can significantly aid the quantification of chemotaxis and NETosis in clinical settings, and be further translated into a tool for risk stratification and precision medicine methods in subjects with metabolic diseases such as T2DM.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87040
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44287
ISSN: 1613-6810
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201702832
Schools: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) 
Rights: © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Small, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201702832].
Fulltext Permission: open
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