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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
卷 150, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111851
关键词
In vitro fertilization; IVF; Culture medium; Growth factor; Digital microfluidic; Immunoassay
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资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 104-2211-E-009-124-MY2, MOST 105-2314-B-182A-114, MOST 106 -3114 -B-182A-002]
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital funds, Taiwan [CMRPG3G1361-2]
The measurement of growth factors released in a culture medium is considered to be an attractive non-invasive approach, apart from the embryo morphology, to identify the condition of an embryo development after fertilization in vitro (IVF), but the available embryo culture medium in the current method is only a few microlitres. This small sample volume, also of small concentration, makes difficult the application of a conventional detection method, such as an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). A reliable detection of the growth factor from each embryo culture medium of such a small concentration hence remains a challenge. Here for the first time we report the results of measurement of not just one, but two, growth factors, human IL-1 beta and human TNF-alpha, from an individual droplet of embryo culture medium with a bead-based digital microfluidic chip. The required sample volume for a single measurement is only 520 nL; the total duration of the on-chip process is less than 40 min. Using the culture media of human embryos with normal morphologic features, we found that the concentrations of TNF-alpha change little from day 3 to day 5-6, but the concentrations of IL-1 beta for some embryos might double from day 3 to day 5-6. For other embryos even with similar normal morphologic features, some growth factors, such as IL-1 beta, might exhibit different expressions during the culture period. Those growth factors could serve to distinguish the development conditions of each embryo, not merely from an observation of embryo morphology.
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