Cholesterol self-powered biosensor.
Monitoring the cholesterol level is of great importance, especially for people with high risk of developing heart disease. Here we report on reagentless cholesterol de...
Bioelectricity generation in an integrated system combining microbial fuel cell and tubular membrane reactor: effects of operation parameters performing a microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for tubular membrane bioreactor.
A bio-cathode microbial fuel cell (MFC) with tubular membrane was integrated to construct a microbial fuel cell-tubular membrane bioreactor (MFC-TMBR) system, in which...
Extraction and sensitive detection of toxins A and B from the human pathogen Clostridium difficile in 40 seconds using microwave-accelerated metal-enhanced fluorescence.
Clostridium difficile is the primary cause of antibiotic associated diarrhea in humans and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Thus the rapid and accura...
Nanostructured porous Si optical biosensors: effect of thermal oxidation on their performance and properties.
The influence of thermal oxidation conditions on the performance of porous Si optical biosensors used for label-free and real-time monitoring of enzymatic activity is ...
Electrochemical immunosensor for anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies based on the in situ detection of quantum dots.
A miniaturized electrochemical biosensor array with in situ detection of quantum dots (QDs) was developed for the detection of anti-transglutaminase IgG antibodies (a ...
Efficient voltammetric discrimination of free bilirubin from uric acid and ascorbic acid by a CVD nanographite-based microelectrode.
We report a novel electrochemical sensor based on nanographite grown on platinum microelectrodes for the determination of bilirubin in the presence of normal concentra...
Poly(brilliant green) and poly(thionine) modified carbon nanotube coated carbon film electrodes for glucose and uric acid biosensors.
Poly(brilliant green) (PBG) and poly(thionine) (PTH) films have been formed on carbon film electrodes (CFEs) modified with carbon nanotubes (CNT) by electropolymerisat...
Nanoimmunoassay onto a screen printed electrode for HER2 breast cancer biomarker determination.
A chip format sandwich-type immunoassay based on Nanobodies(®) (Nbs) with the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER2) extracellular domain as antigen model has b...
Sensitive electrochemical detection of NADH and ethanol at low potential based on pyrocatechol violet electrodeposited on single walled carbon nanotubes-modified pencil graphite electrode.
In this work, the electrodeposition of pyrocatechol violet (PCV) was initially investigated by the electrochemical surface plasmon resonance (ESPR) technique. Subseque...
Simultaneous detection of circulating oncomiRs from body fluids for prostate cancer staging using nanographene oxide.
Circulating oncomiRs are highly stable diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic tumor biomarkers, which can reflect the status of the disease and response to cancer the...
Gabapentin attenuates hyperexcitability in the freeze-lesion model of developmental cortical malformation.
Developmental cortical malformations are associated with a high incidence of drug-resistant epilepsy. The underlying epileptogenic mechanisms, however, are poorly unde...
Label-free, live optical imaging of reprogrammed bipolar disorder patient-derived cells reveals a functional correlate of lithium responsiveness.
Development of novel treatments and diagnostic tools for psychiatric illness has been hindered by the absence of cellular models of disease. With the advent of cellula...
Plasmonic nanopipette biosensor.
Integrating a SERS immunoassay on a plasmonic "patch clamp" nanopipette enabled nanobiosensing for the detection of IgG. A SERS response was obtained using a sandwich ...
An in-line photonic biosensor for monitoring of glucose concentrations.
This paper presents two PDMS photonic biosensor designs that can be used for continuous monitoring of glucose concentrations. The first design, the internally immobili...
Bacterial lipid modification of proteins requires appropriate secretory signals even for expression - implications for biogenesis and protein engineering.
Sec- and Tat-mediated bacterial lipid modification of proteins are important posttranslational processes owing to their vital roles in cellular functions, membrane tar...
Photoelectrochemical biosensor using enzyme-catalyzed in situ propagation of CdS quantum dots on graphene oxide.
An innovative photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensor platform was designed based on the in situ generation of CdS quantum dots (QDs) on graphene oxide (GO) using an enzy...
Trends in protein-based biosensor assemblies for drug screening and pharmaceutical kinetic studies.
The selection of natural and chemical compounds for potential applications in new pharmaceutical formulations constitutes a time-consuming procedure in drug screening....
Dendronized cryptophanes as water-soluble xenon hosts for (129)Xe magnetic resonance imaging.
Cryptophane cages are very promising for (129)Xe-MRI. These molecular cages are extremely hydrophobic, which currently limits their use for diagnostic applications. To...
Co-immobilized glucose oxidase and β-galactosidase on bovine serum albumin coated allyl glycidyl ether (AGE)-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDM) copolymer as a biosensor for lactose determination in milk.
Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was adsorbed on allyl glycidyl ether (AGE)-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDM) copolymer with 25% crosslink density (AGE-25) at pH 8.0 (16...
A comparison of assay performance between the calcium mobilization and the dynamic mass redistribution technologies for the human urotensin receptor.
The popular screening method for urotensin (UT) receptor antagonists is to measure the intracellular calcium concentration with a calcium-sensitive fluorescent dye. Th...