Design and validation of an endothelial progenitor cell capture chip and its application in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension |
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Authors: | Hansmann Georg Plouffe Brian D Hatch Adam von Gise Alexander Sallmon Hannes Zamanian Roham T Murthy Shashi K |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA;(2) Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 342 Snell Engineering Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA;(3) Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;(4) Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | The number of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) inversely correlates with cardiovascular risk and clinical outcome,
and thus has been proposed as a valuable biomarker for risk assessment, disease progression, and response to therapy. However,
current strategies for isolation of these rare cells are limited to complex, laborious approaches. The goal of this study
was the design and validation of a disposable microfluidic platform capable of selectively capturing and enumerating EPCs
directly from human whole blood in healthy and diseased subjects, eliminating sample preprocessing. We then applied the “EPC
capture chip” clinically and determined EPC numbers in blood from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Blood
was collected in tubes and injected into polymeric microfluidic chips containing microcolumns pre-coated with anti-CD34 antibody.
Captured cells were immunofluorescently stained for the expression of stem and endothelial antigens, identified and counted.
The EPC capture chip was validated with conventional flow cytometry counts (r = 0.83). The inter- and intra-day reliability of the microfluidic devices was confirmed at different time points in triplicates
over 1–5 months. In a cohort of 43 patients with three forms of PAH (idiopathic/heritable, drug-induced, and connective tissue
disease), EPC numbers are ≈50% lower in PAH subjects vs. matched controls and inversely related to two potential disease modifiers:
body mass index and postmenopausal status. The EPC capture chip (5 × 30 × 0.05 mm3) requires only 200 μL of human blood and has the strong potential to serve as a rapid bedside test for the screening and
monitoring of patients with PAH and other proliferative cardiovascular, pulmonary, malignant, and neurodegenerative diseases. |
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