Detection of human disease conditions by single-cell morpho-rheological phenotyping of blood
- Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Abstract
Blood is arguably the most important bodily fluid and its analysis provides crucial health status information. A first routine measure to narrow down diagnosis in clinical practice is the differential blood count, determining the frequency of all major blood cells. What is lacking to advance initial blood diagnostics is an unbiased and quick functional assessment of blood that can narrow down the diagnosis and generate specific hypotheses. To address this need, we introduce the continuous, cell-by-cell morpho-rheological (MORE) analysis of diluted whole blood, without labeling, enrichment or separation, at rates of 1,000 cells/sec. In a drop of blood we can identify all major blood cells and characterize their pathological changes in several disease conditions in vitro and in patient samples. This approach takes previous results of mechanical studies on specifically isolated blood cells to the level of application directly in blood and adds a functional dimension to conventional blood analysis.
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Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship)
- Jochen Guck
National Institute for Health Research (Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre)
- Edwin R Chilvers
GlaxoSmithKline (noncommercial grant)
- Edwin R Chilvers
Seventh Framework Programme (ERC Starting Grant #282060)
- Jochen Guck
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TRR83 and SFB655)
- Ünal Coskun
- Martin Bornhäuser
Seventh Framework Programme (ITN)
- Lisa Ranford-Cartwright
- Birgitta Henriques Normark
- Jochen Guck
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.))
- Ünal Coskun
Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (TG70 AZ 4-7531.60/29/45)
- Oliver Otto
- Jochen Guck
Tour der Hoffnung (noncommercial grant)
- Julia Stächele
Sonnenstrahl e.V. Dresden (noncommercial grant)
- Meinolf Suttorp
Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (Seed grant FZ 111)
- Jochen Guck
Technische Universität Dresden (Support the Best Program)
- Reinhard Berner
- Jochen Guck
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Human subjects: The work involved measurements of human blood samples. All studies complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and involved written informed consent from all participants or their legal guardians. Ethics for experiments with human blood were approved by the ethics committee of the Technische Universität Dresden (EK89032013, EK458102015), and for human blood and LPS inhalation in healthy volunteers by the East of England, Cambridge Central ethics committee (Study No. 06/Q0108/281 and ClinicalTrialReference NCT02551614).
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- Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, France
Version history
- Received: June 1, 2017
- Accepted: January 3, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: January 13, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: January 30, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Toepfner et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Detection of human disease conditions by single-cell morpho-rheological phenotyping of blood
eLife 7:e29213.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29213
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