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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
卷 131, 期 -, 页码 257-266出版社
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.01.051
关键词
Direct ink writing; Additive manufacturing; Rapid prototyping; Glutamate; Implantable; Biosensor; Spinal cord injury
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资金
- Global Research Outreach program of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
- NSF (National Science Foundation, United States) [CNS-1741483]
Glutamate excitotoxicity is a pathology in which excessive glutamate can cause neuronal damage and degeneration. It has also been linked to secondary injury mechanisms in traumatic spinal cord injury. Conventional bioanalytical techniques used to characterize glutamate levels in vivo, such as microdialysis, have low spatio-temporal resolution, which has impeded our understanding of this dynamic event. In this study, we present an amperometric biosensor fabricated using a simple direct ink writing technique for the purpose of in vivo glutamate monitoring. The biosensor is fabricated by immobilizing glutamate oxidase on nanocomposite electrodes made of platinum nanoparticles, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and a conductive polymer on a flexible substrate. The sensor is designed to measure extracellular dynamics of glutamate and other potential biomarkers during a traumatic spinal cord injury event. Here we demonstrate good sensitivity and selectivity of these rapidly prototyped implantable biosensors that can be inserted into a spinal cord and measure extracellular glutamate concentration. We show that our biosensors exhibit good flexibility, linear range, repeatability, and stability that are suitable for future in vivo evaluation.
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