Journal
METHODS
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 198-203Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.12.003
Keywords
Atopic dermatitis; Biopsy; Chemokines; Chip-based CE; Immunoaffinity
Funding
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Atopic dermatitis is a skin condition resulting in a skin rash from exposure to environmental factors. Skin biopsies taken from patients suffering from atopic dermatitis were micro-dissected and analyzed using a microchip-based immunoaffinity CE system for the presence of CXCL1, CXCL5 and CXCL8 and CCL1, CCL3 and CCL5 chemokines. Disposable immunoaffinity disks with immobilized antibodies were used to capture the CXC and CC chemokines from the homogenized skin samples. The captured analytes were then labeled with AlexaFluor 633, eluted from the disk and separated by CE. The labeled chemokines were identified and quantified by laser induced fluorescence. The total analysis time was less than 40 min, including the biopsy microdissection, pre-analysis preparation of the sample and the ICE-CHIP analysis, which took less than 10 min with inter- and intra-assay CV's below 6.4%. Microchip-based immunoaffinity CE could distinguish between normal skin biopsies and those with inflammation. Patients with neutrophil cellular infiltrates by histopathology showed increased concentrations of CXCL1, CXCL5 and CXCL8 while increases of CCL1, CCL3 and CCL5 corresponded to the patient group demonstrating monocytic and T-lymphocyte infiltration by histopathology. This system demonstrates the ability to identify and quantify immunochemical analytes in frozen sections taken from clinical histopathology samples. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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