Detection of human disease conditions by single-cell morpho-rheological phenotyping of blood
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Blood is arguably the most important bodily fluid and its analysis provides crucial health status information. A first routine measure to narrow down diagnosis in clinical practice is the differential blood count, determining the frequency of all major blood cells. What is lacking to advance initial blood diagnostics is an unbiased and quick functional assessment of blood that can narrow down the diagnosis and generate specific hypotheses. To address this need, we introduce the continuous, cell-by-cell morpho-rheological (MORE) analysis of diluted whole blood, without labeling, enrichment or separation, at rates of 1000 cells/sec. In a drop of blood we can identify all major blood cells and characterize their pathological changes in several disease conditions in vitro and in patient samples. This approach takes previous results of mechanical studies on specifically isolated blood cells to the level of application directly in blood and adds a functional dimension to conventional blood analysis.
Date Issued
2018-01-13
Date Acceptance
2018-01-03
Citation
eLife, 2018, 7
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
7
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Toepfner et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which
permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA
PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM
MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES
DEFORMABILITY
CYTOMETRY
STIFFNESS
CULTURE
MICROCIRCULATION
SYNCHRONIZATION
PALMITOYLATION
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e29213
Date Publish Online
2018-01-13