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ReviewBiosensors2013

Isothermal amplification methods for the detection of nucleic acids in microfluidic devices.

Laura Maria Zanoli, Giuseppe Spoto

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Review in Biosensors, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laura Maria ZanoliIstituto Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania, Italy; E-Mail: lzanoli@unict.it.
Giuseppe SpotoIstituto Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, CNR, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania, Italy; E-Mail: lzanoli@unict.it ; Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnostic tools for biomolecular detection need to fulfill specific requirements in terms of sensitivity, selectivity and high-throughput in order to widen their applicability and to minimize the cost of the assay. The nucleic acid amplification is a key step in DNA detection assays. It contributes to improving the assay sensitivity by enabling the detection of a limited number of target molecules. The use of microfluidic devices to miniaturize amplification protocols reduces the required sample volume and the analysis times and offers new possibilities for the process automation and integration in one single device. The vast majority of miniaturized systems for nucleic acid analysis exploit the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification method, which requires repeated cycles of three or two temperature-dependent steps during the amplification of the nucleic acid target sequence. In contrast, low temperature isothermal amplification methods have no need for thermal cycling thus requiring simplified microfluidic device features. Here, the use of miniaturized analysis systems using isothermal amplification reactions for the nucleic acid amplification will be discussed.

Indexed as

DNAisothermal amplification methodsmicrofluidicsminiaturization

Identifiers

PMID25587397
PMCPMC4263587

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