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ArticleLab on a chip2007

A microfluidic device for practical label-free CD4(+) T cell counting of HIV-infected subjects.

Xuanhong Cheng, Daniel Irimia, Meredith Dixon, Kazuhiko Sekine, Utkan Demirci, Lee Zamir, Ronald G Tompkins, William Rodriguez, Mehmet Toner

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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119citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 339 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xuanhong ChengSurgical Services and Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Daniel Irimia
Meredith Dixon
Kazuhiko Sekine
Utkan Demirci
Lee Zamir
Ronald G Tompkins
William Rodriguez
Mehmet Toner
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USShriners Hospitals for Children - Erie · US

Funding

Bio-MicroElectroMechanical Systems Resource CenterP41EB002503 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TONER, MEHMET · 2004 to 2018
$17.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS EB002503NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Practical HIV diagnostics are urgently needed in resource-limited settings. While HIV infection can be diagnosed using simple, rapid, lateral flow immunoassays, HIV disease staging and treatment monitoring require accurate counting of a particular white blood cell subset, the CD4(+) T lymphocyte. To address the limitations of current expensive, technically demanding and/or time-consuming approaches, we have developed a simple CD4 counting microfluidic device. This device uses cell affinity chromatography operated under differential shear flow to specifically isolate CD4(+) T lymphocytes with high efficiency directly from 10 microliters of unprocessed, unlabeled whole blood. CD4 counts are obtained under an optical microscope in a rapid, simple and label-free fashion. CD4 counts determined in our device matched measurements by conventional flow cytometry among HIV-positive subjects over a wide range of absolute CD4 counts (R(2) = 0.93). This CD4 counting microdevice can be used for simple, rapid and affordable CD4 counting in point-of-care and resource-limited settings.

Indexed as

CD4 AntigensCD4 Lymphocyte CountCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell AdhesionChromatography, AffinityFlow CytometryHIV InfectionsHIV SeropositivityHumansMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesSurface PropertiesTime FactorsCD4 Antigens

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PMID17268618
PMCPMC4028372
OpenAlexW2100898839

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