Title :
Dielectric characteristics of lipid droplets suspended in YEPD media
Author :
Blakey, Richard ; Mason, Alex ; Al-Shamma´a, Ahmed ; Rolph, Carole ; Bond, Gary
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Built Environ., Liverpool John Moores Univ., Liverpool, UK
fDate :
Nov. 28 2011-Dec. 1 2011
Abstract :
Currently, there are no point-of-care diagnosis strategies available to indicate the presence of neoplasmic growth. This research aims to develop a novel diagnostic strategy based on detecting lipid accumulation in various cells. This element of the research is a preliminary experiment to prove the concept of detecting TAG lipid droplets in YEPD media. This method calculated the relative dielectric constant of vegetable oils at 2.991 to 3.014 for groundnut and grapeseed oil respectively. The results indicate a decrease in relative dielectric constant and dielectric loss as the proportion of lipid droplet increases.
Keywords :
dielectric losses; drops; permittivity; TAG lipid droplets; YEPD media; dielectric characteristics; dielectric loss; neoplasmic growth; point-of-care diagnosis strategies; relative dielectric constant; Cavity resonators; Cells (biology); Dielectric constant; Dielectric measurements; Lipidomics; Permittivity; cavity perturbation; dielectric spectroscopy; lipid droplet; liposome; triacylglycerol;
Conference_Titel :
Sensing Technology (ICST), 2011 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Palmerston North
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0168-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSensT.2011.6136966