Issue 10, 2024

Isolation of acute myeloid leukemia blasts from blood using a microfluidic device

Abstract

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults and associated with poor prognosis. Unfortunately, most of the patients that achieve clinical complete remission after the treatment will ultimately relapse due to the persistence of minimal residual disease (MRD), that is not measurable using conventional technologies in the clinic. Microfluidics is a potential tool to improve the diagnosis by providing early detection of MRD. Herein, different designs of microfluidic devices were developed to promote lateral and vertical mixing of cells in microchannels to increase the contact area of the cells of interest with the inner surface of the device. Possible interactions between the cells and the surface were studied using fluid simulations. For the isolation of leukemic blasts, a positive selection strategy was used, targeting the cells of interest using a panel of specific biomarkers expressed in immature and aberrant blasts. Finally, once the optimisation was complete, the best conditions were used to process patient samples for downstream analysis and benchmarking, including phenotypic and genetic characterisation. The potential of these microfluidic devices to isolate and detect AML blasts may be exploited for the monitoring of AML patients at different stages of the disease.

Graphical abstract: Isolation of acute myeloid leukemia blasts from blood using a microfluidic device

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Jan 2024
Accepted
08 Apr 2024
First published
13 Apr 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Analyst, 2024,149, 2812-2825

Isolation of acute myeloid leukemia blasts from blood using a microfluidic device

A. Teixeira, M. Sousa-Silva, A. Chícharo, K. Oliveira, A. Moura, A. Carneiro, P. Piairo, H. Águas, B. Sampaio-Marques, I. Castro, J. Mariz, P. Ludovico, S. Abalde-Cela and L. Diéguez, Analyst, 2024, 149, 2812 DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00158C

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