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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Detection of intracellular monosodium urate crystals in gout synovial fluid using optical diffraction tomography.

Sangwoo Park, Lucy Eunju Lee, Hanna Kim, Ji Eun Kim, Seung Jun Lee, Sunggyu Yoon, Seungwoo Shin, Heemin Kang, YongKeun Park, Jason Jungsik Song and 1 more

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Static and Dynamic Biomaterial Engineering for Cell Modulation.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  9. A glance into the future of gout.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sangwoo Park *Division of Aging Research, Gwangju Center, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), 49 Dosicheomdansaneop-ro, Nam-gu, Gwangju, 61751, South Korea.
Lucy Eunju Lee *Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
Hanna KimDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
Ji Eun KimDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
Seung Jun LeeDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
Sunggyu YoonDivision of Aging Research, Gwangju Center, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), 49 Dosicheomdansaneop-ro, Nam-gu, Gwangju, 61751, South Korea.
Seungwoo ShinDepartment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, South Korea.
Heemin KangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, South Korea.
YongKeun ParkDepartment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, South Korea.
Jason Jungsik SongDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea. JSKSONG@yuhs.ac.
Seongsoo LeeDivision of Aging Research, Gwangju Center, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), 49 Dosicheomdansaneop-ro, Nam-gu, Gwangju, 61751, South Korea. soolee@kbsi.re.kr.
Yonsei University · KRKorea Basic Science Institute · KRKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KRKorea University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) enables imaging of unlabeled intracellular components by measuring the three-dimensional (3D) refractive index (RI). We aimed to detect intracellular monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in synovial leukocytes derived from gout patients using ODT. The 3D RI values of the synthetic MSU crystals, measured by ODT, ranged between 1.383 and 1.440. After adding synthetic MSU crystals to a macrophage, RI tomograms were reconstructed using ODT, and the reconstructed RI tomograms discerned intracellular and extracellular MSU crystals. We observed unlabeled synthetic MSU crystal entry into the cytoplasm of a macrophage through time-lapse imaging. Furthermore, using gout patient-derived synovial leukocytes, we successfully obtained RI tomogram images of intracellular MSU crystals. The 3D RI identification of MSU crystals was verified with birefringence through polarization-sensitive ODT measurements. Together, our results provide evidence that this novel ODT can identify birefringent MSU crystals in synovial leukocytes of patients with gout.

Indexed as

Tomography, OpticalCell LineGoutHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMacrophagesRefractometrySynovial FluidUric AcidUric Acid

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PMID33976275
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