Biomedical subjects

Jidong Guo

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PubMed2006

Voltammetric heparin-selective electrode based on thin liquid membrane with conducting polymer-modified solid support.

A novel, solid-supported voltammetric ion-selective electrode to detect anticoagulant/antithrombotic heparin at polarizable poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membrane/water interfaces was developed. An approximately 3-4.5-microm-thick PVC membrane plasticized with 2-nitrophenyl octyl ether was supported on a gold electrode modified with a poly(3-octylthiophene) (POT) film as an ion-to-electron transducer. Charge transport through the PVC-covered POT film is electrochemically reversible, as demonstrated by cyclic voltammetry with nonpolarizable membrane/water interfaces. In addition to the fast charge transport, adequate redox capacity of the POT film and a small ohmic potential drop in the thin PVC membrane enable ion transfer voltammetry at polarizable macroscopic membrane/water interfaces in a standard three-electrode cell. Reversible ClO4- transfer at the interfaces coupled with oxidation of a neutral POT film was examined by cyclic voltammetry to determine the distribution of the applied potential to the two polarizable interfaces by convolution technique. Interfacial adsorption and desorption of heparin facilitated by octadecyltrimethylammonium were studied also by cyclic voltammetry and convolution technique to demonstrate that the processes are electrochemically irreversible. Stripping voltammetry based on the interfacial processes gives a low detection limit of 0.005 unit/mL heparin in a saline solution, which is slightly lower than the detection limit of most sensitive heparin sensors reported so far (0.01 unit/mL).

Electrochemistry↗

PubMed2006

Chemical radiculitis.

The theory of chemical radiculitis had been put forward about 30 years ago, but as yet it has not been proved by clinical studies. The aim of the current studies was to determine whether the annular tear of a painful disc proved by discography is the cause of radiating leg pain (radiculopathy) in patients with discogenic low back pain. Forty-two patients with discogenic low back pain at single disc level with concomitant radiating leg pain were studied in order to analyse the relationship between site of annular tear and side of radiating leg pain. Electromyogram and motor nerve conduction velocity were monitored to examine nerve root injury. The current studies found that there was a significant positive correlation between the site of annular tear and the side of radiation pain. Abnormalities of electromyogram and reduction of motor nerve conduction velocity were found on the side of radiating leg pain. The studies indicated that leakage of chemical mediators or inflammatory cytokines, which are produced in the painful disc, into epidural space through annular tear could lead to injury to adjacent nerve roots, and it might constitute the primary pathophysiologic mechanism of radiating leg pain in patients with discogenic low back pain but with no disc herniation.

Adult↗

PubMed2006

Biological applications of scanning electrochemical microscopy: chemical imaging of single living cells and beyond.

Recent applications of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to studies of single biological cells are reviewed. This scanning probe microscopic technique allows the imaging of an individual cell on the basis of not only its surface topography but also such cellular activities as photosynthesis, respiration, electron transfer, single vesicular exocytosis and membrane transport. The operational principles of SECM are also introduced in the context of these biological applications. Recent progress in techniques for high-resolution SECM imaging are also reviewed. Future directions, such as single-channel detection by SECM, high-resolution imaging with nanometer-sized probes, and combined SECM techniques for multidimensional imaging are also discussed.

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PubMed2006

Local feedback mode of scanning electrochemical microscopy for electrochemical characterization of one-dimensional nanostructure: theory and experiment with nanoband electrode as model substrate.

Local feedback mode is introduced as a novel operation mode of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) for electrochemical characterization of a single one-dimensional (1D) nanostructure, for example, a wire, rod, band, and tube with 1-100-nm width and micrometer to centimeter length. To demonstrate the principle, SECM feedback effects under diffusion limitation were studied theoretically and experimentally with a disk probe brought near a semi-infinitely long band electrode as a geometrical model for a conductive 1D nanostructure. As the band becomes narrower than the disk diameter, the feedback mechanism for tip current enhancement is predicted to change from standard positive feedback mode, to positive local feedback mode, and then to negative local feedback mode. The negative local feedback effect is the only feedback effect that allows observation of a 1D nanostructure without serious limitations due to small lateral dimension, available tip size, or finite electron-transfer rate. In line-scan and approach-curve experiments, an unbiased Pt band electrode with 100-nm width and 2.6-cm length was detectable in negative local feedback mode, even using a 25-microm-diameter disk Pt electrode. Using a 2-microm-diameter probe, both well-defined and defected sites were observed in SECM imaging on the basis of local electrochemical activity of the nanoband electrode. Noncontact and spatially resolved measurement is an advantage of this novel SECM approach over standard electrochemical approaches using electrodes based on 1D nanostructure.

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PubMed2005

Voltammetric detection of heparin at polarized blood plasma/1,2-dichloroethane interfaces.

Heparin, a highly negatively charged polysaccharide, which has been used widely as an anticoagulant and antithrombotic, was detected by ion-transfer voltammetry at the interface between 1,2-dichloroethane and an aqueous buffer solution or undiluted blood plasma. Quaternary ammoniums with different numbers of methyl and long alkyl groups were examined as positively charged heparin ionophores using pipet electrodes filled with the organic electrolyte solutions of their tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)borate salts. It was shown that octadecyltrimethylammonium most selectively facilitates interfacial heparin adsorption without interference from potential-dependent ionophore transfer into the aqueous phase. Water-filled pipet electrodes were also used to study the stoichiometry of the interfacial complex between a heparin molecule and multiple ionophore molecules, which is discussed as a counterion condensation effect. Stripping voltammetry based on facilitated heparin adsorption and desorption gives a detection limit of 0.012 unit/mL in 0.12 M NaCl buffered at pH 7.2, which is 1 order of magnitude lower than therapeutic heparin concentrations (>0.2 unit/mL) and is comparable to a detection limit of the most sensitive heparin sensor reported so far. The biomedical utility of ion-transfer voltammetry was demonstrated for the first time in an undiluted blood sample. Despite interferences by Na+, Cl-, and plasma proteins such as serum albumin, a detection limit of 0.13 unit/mL was obtained in sheep blood plasma with the stripping method.

Adsorption↗

PubMed2005

Permeability of the nuclear envelope at isolated Xenopus oocyte nuclei studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy.

In interphase eukaryotic cells, molecular transport between the cytoplasm and the nucleus is mediated by the nuclear pore complex (NPC), which perforates the double-membraned nuclear envelope (NE). Local permeability of the NE at large intact nuclei (approximately 400 microm in diameter) isolated from Xenopus laevis oocytes was studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). Steady-state tip current versus tip-nucleus distance curves (approach curves) were measured with 10- and 2-microm-diameter Pt disk microelectrodes at the nuclei in isotonic buffer solutions containing redox-active molecules. The approach curves in the normalized form are independent of the tip diameter, indicating diffusion-limited membrane transport of the redox molecules. SECM chronoamperometry demonstrated that a decrease in the steady-state tip current at short tip-nucleus distances is due to smaller diffusion coefficients and concentrations of the redox molecules in the nucleus than those in the buffer solution. The experimental approach curves fit very well with theoretical ones for freely permeable membranes, yielding the NE permeability to the molecules that is at least 2 orders of magnitude larger than permeability of bilayer lipid membranes and cell membranes. This result indicates that passive transport of the redox molecules across the NE is facilitated by open NPC pores. The flux of the redox molecules sustainable by a single NPC channel (>9.8 x 10(6) molecules per NPC per second) and the diameter of the channel pore (>15 nm) were estimated from the SECM data by assuming the NE as an array of nanometer-sized NPC pores. The effects of the redox molecules on the nucleus and the NPC function were examined by studying signal-mediated nuclear import of rhodamine-labeled bovine serum albumin with and without nuclear localization signals by fluorescence microscopy.

Active Transport, Cell Nucleus↗

PubMed2002

Investigation of ion transfer across the micro-water/nitrobenzene interface facilitated by a fullerene derivative.

A functionalized fullerene derivative containing a monoaza-18-crown-6 moiety was investigated by facilitated ion (such as Li+, Na+, K+, NH4+, Mg2+, and Ca2+) transfer across the micro-water/nitrobenzene interface supported at the tip of a micropipet. The current responses were detected by cyclic voltammetry and Osteryoung square wave voltammetry, which demonstrated that the facilitated ion transfer does occur by an interfacial complexation-dissociation process. The diffusion coefficient of this compound in nitrobenzene was approximately (5.90 +/- 0.04) x 10(-7) cm2 s(-1), which is 1 order of magnitude less than other common ionophores due to the large size of the molecule. The selectivity of this molecule toward the metal ions followed the sequence Na+ > Li+ > K+ > NH4+ > Ca2+ approximately equals Mg2+. In addition, this compound was also easy to form film at the water/nitrobenzene interface to inhibit the simple ion transfer of tetramethylammonium ion. However, the adsorption of this ionophore has less influence on the facilitated metal ion transfer.

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