Title :
Microfluidic systems for clinical diagnostics
Author :
Chiem, Nghia ; Colyer, Christa ; Harrison, Jed D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada
Abstract :
The challenges and solutions for designing automated microfluidic systems for the entire series of mixing, reaction and separation of proteins and antibodies integrated directly on a chip are presented. Examples of clinically relevant assays such as analysis of human serum proteins for clinical diagnostics and immunoassay of a therapeutic drug for asthma, theophylline, are reported
Keywords :
biological techniques; electrophoresis; micromachining; micromechanical devices; mixing; patient diagnosis; proteins; separation; antibodies; asthma; automated microfluidic systems; chip; clinical diagnostics; clinically relevant assays; human serum proteins; immunoassay; mixing; proteins; reaction; separation; theophylline; therapeutic drug; Automation; Electrokinetics; Fluorescence; Humans; Immune system; Labeling; Microfluidics; Performance analysis; Pharmaceutical technology; Proteins;
Conference_Titel :
Solid State Sensors and Actuators, 1997. TRANSDUCERS '97 Chicago., 1997 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3829-4
DOI :
10.1109/SENSOR.1997.613613
