期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOENGINEERING
卷 11, 期 6, 页码 519-529出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12195-018-0541-z
关键词
Biorheology; Electrical engineering; Whole blood testing; Hematocrit; Coagulation
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01HL101972, R01GM116184, F31HL13623001]
- American Heart Association [13EIA12630000]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL101972, F31HL136230] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM116184] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
To develop a small volume whole blood analyzer capable of measuring the hematocrit and coagulation kinetics of whole blood. A co-planar microfluidic chamber designed to facilitate self-driven capillary action across an internal electrical chip was developed and used to measure the electric parameters of whole human blood that had been anticoagulated or allowed to clot. To promote blood clotting, select chip surfaces were coated with a prothrombin time (PT) reagent containing lipidated tissue factor (TF), which activates the extrinsic pathway of coagulation to promote thrombin generation and fibrin formation. Whole human blood was added to the microfluidic device, and voltage changes within the platform were measured and interpreted using basic resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit and fluid dynamics theory. Upon wetting of the sensing zone, a circuit between two co-planar electrodes within the sensing zone was closed to generate a rapid voltage drop from baseline. The voltage then rose due to sedimentation of red blood cells (RBC) in the sensing zone. For anticoagulated blood samples, the time for the voltage to return to baseline was dependent on hematocrit. In the presence of coagulation, the initiation of fibrin formation in the presence of the PT reagent prevented the return of voltage to baseline due to the reduced packing of RBCs in the sensing zone. The technology presented in this study has potential for monitoring the hematocrit and coagulation parameters of patient samples using a small volume of whole blood, suggesting it may hold clinical utility as a point-of-care test.
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