Electric yo-yo centrifugation combining with paper-based microfluidic immunoassay chip for inflammatory biomarkers detection in whole blood

Talanta. 2023 Feb 1:253:123883. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123883. Epub 2022 Sep 6.

Abstract

At present, most countries or regions use commercial centrifuges for centrifugation, but this is out of reaching for limited-resource areas. To overcome this problem, a portable electric yo-yo as centrifuge was firstly proposed to obtain serum, and this device can be combined with paper-based analytical devices for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis from human whole blood. In this study, inflammatory biomarkers C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) were used as target biomarker to verify the performance of the proposed method. The results shows good performance and their detection limits were determined to be 580 pg/mL for CRP and 800 pg/mL for SAA, respectively. We believe this method provides a new platform of low cost and fast detection for inflammatory biomarkers in the limited-resource settings.

Keywords: Colorimetric; Immunoassay; Inflammation markers; Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices; Point-of-care.