Label-free separation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from whole blood by gradient acoustic focusing

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Efficient techniques for separating target cells from undiluted blood are necessary for various diagnostic and research applications. This paper presents acoustic focusing in dense media containing iodixanol to purify peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from whole blood in a label-free and flow-through format. If the blood is laminated or mixed with iodixanol solutions while passing through the resonant microchannel, all the components (fluids and cells) rearrange according to their acoustic impedances. Red blood cells (RBCs) have higher effective acoustic impedance than PBMCs. Therefore, they relocate to the pressure node despite the dense medium, while PBMCs stay near the channel walls due to their negative contrast factor relative to their surrounding medium. By modifying the medium and thus tuning the contrast factor of the cells, we enriched PBMCs relative to RBCs by a factor of 3600 to 11,000 and with a separation efficiency of 85%. That level of RBC depletion is higher than most other microfluidic methods and similar to that of density gradient centrifugation. The current acoustophoretic chip runs up to 20 µl/min undiluted whole blood and can be integrated with downstream analysis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 14(2024), 1 vom: 16. Apr., Seite 8748

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alsved, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Rezayati Charan, Mahdi [VerfasserIn]
Ohlsson, Pelle [VerfasserIn]
Urbansky, Anke [VerfasserIn]
Augustsson, Per [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

HW8W27HTXX
Iodixanol
Journal Article
Triiodobenzoic Acids

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Date Completed 18.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-024-59156-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM371166721