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ReviewBiotechnology advances

Transforming the blood glucose meter into a general healthcare meter for in vitro diagnostics in mobile health.

Tian Lan, Jingjing Zhang, Yi Lu

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Review in Biotechnology advances. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tian LanGlucoSentient, Inc., 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. Electronic address: tianlan.1983@gmail.com.
Jingjing ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Yi LuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: yi-lu@illinois.edu.

Funding

Adapting wireless glucometer to boost opioid dependence medication complianceR43DA035524 · NIDA · GLUCOSENTIENT, INC. · PI LAN, TIAN · 2013 to 2013
$193k
Low cost quantitative monitoring of kidney injury biomarkers using a glucometerR43DK100213 · NIDDK · GLUCOSENTIENT, INC. · PI LAN, TIAN · 2013 to 2013
$137k
NIDA NIH HHS 1R43DA035524-01NIDA NIH HHS R43 DA035524NIDDK NIH HHS 1R43DK100213-01NIDDK NIH HHS R43 DK100213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in mobile network and smartphones have provided an enormous opportunity for transforming in vitro diagnostics (IVD) from central labs to home or other points of care (POC). A major challenge to achieving the goal is a long time and high costs associated with developing POC IVD devices in mobile Health (mHealth). Instead of developing a new POC device for every new IVD target, we and others are taking advantage of decades of research, development, engineering and continuous improvement of the blood glucose meter (BGM), including those already integrated with smartphones, and transforming the BGM into a general healthcare meter for POC IVDs of a wide range of biomarkers, therapeutic drugs and other analytical targets. In this review, we summarize methods to transduce and amplify selective binding of targets by antibodies, DNA/RNA aptamers, DNAzyme/ribozymes and protein enzymes into signals such as glucose or NADH that can be measured by commercially available BGM, making it possible to adapt many clinical assays performed in central labs, such as immunoassays, aptamer/DNAzyme assays, molecular diagnostic assays, and enzymatic activity assays onto BGM platform for quantification of non-glucose targets for a wide variety of IVDs in mHealth.

Indexed as

TelemedicineBlood GlucoseBlood Glucose Self-MonitoringEquipment DesignHumansBlood GlucoseAptamerBiosensorsBlood Glucose MeterDNAzymeEnzymatic activity assayImmunoassayIn vitro diagnosticsMobile healthMolecular diagnosticsPoint of care

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PMID26946282
PMCPMC4833671

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