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ReviewBiosensors2021

Electrochemical Biosensors for Cytokine Profiling: Recent Advancements and Possibilities in the Near Future.

Nirmita Dutta, Peter B Lillehoj, Pedro Estrela, Gorachand Dutta

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Review in Biosensors, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nirmita DuttaSchool of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.
Peter B LillehojDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0289-2634
Pedro EstrelaCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6956-1146
Gorachand DuttaSchool of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2980-9826
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · INRice University · USUniversity of Bath · GB

Funding

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur IIT/SRIC/ISIRD/2019-2020/17Science and Engineering Research Board SRG/2020/000712
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines are soluble proteins secreted by immune cells that act as molecular messengers relaying instructions and mediating various functions performed by the cellular counterparts of the immune system, by means of a synchronized cascade of signaling pathways. Aberrant expression of cytokines can be indicative of anomalous behavior of the immunoregulatory system, as seen in various illnesses and conditions, such as cancer, autoimmunity, neurodegeneration and other physiological disorders. Cancer and autoimmune diseases are particularly adept at developing mechanisms to escape and modulate the immune system checkpoints, reflected by an altered cytokine profile. Cytokine profiling can provide valuable information for diagnosing such diseases and monitoring their progression, as well as assessing the efficacy of immunotherapeutic regiments. Toward this goal, there has been immense interest in the development of ultrasensitive quantitative detection techniques for cytokines, which involves technologies from various scientific disciplines, such as immunology, electrochemistry, photometry, nanotechnology and electronics. This review focusses on one aspect of this collective effort: electrochemical biosensors. Among the various types of biosensors available, electrochemical biosensors are one of the most reliable, user-friendly, easy to manufacture, cost-effective and versatile technologies that can yield results within a short period of time, making it extremely promising for routine clinical testing.

Indexed as

Biosensing TechniquesAutoimmune DiseasesCytokinesElectrochemical TechniquesElectrochemistryElectronicsHumansNanotechnologyNeoplasmsNeurodegenerative DiseasesCytokinesautoimmunitybiosensorcancercytokineelectrochemicalneurodegeneration

Identifiers

PMID33806879
PMCPMC8004910
OpenAlexW3137267043

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