A high-throughput microfluidic approach for 1000-fold leukocyte reduction of platelet-rich plasma
| dc.contributor.author | Xia, Hui | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strachan, Briony C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gifford, Sean C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shevkoplyas, Sergey S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-10T19:51:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-10T19:51:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10/24/2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Leukocyte reduction of donated blood products substantially reduces the risk of a number of transfusion-related complications. Current ‘leukoreduction’ filters operate by trapping leukocytes within specialized filtration material, while allowing desired blood components to pass through. However, the continuous release of inflammatory cytokines from the retained leukocytes, as well as the potential for platelet activation and clogging, are significant drawbacks of conventional ‘dead end’ filtration. To address these limitations, here we demonstrate our newly-developed ‘controlled incremental filtration’ (CIF) approach to perform high-throughput microfluidic removal of leukocytes from platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in a continuous flow regime. Leukocytes are separated from platelets within the PRP by progressively syphoning clarified PRP away from the concentrated leukocyte flowstream. Filtrate PRP collected from an optimally-designed CIF device typically showed a ~1000-fold (i.e. 99.9%) reduction in leukocyte concentration, while recovering >80% of the original platelets, at volumetric throughputs of ~1?mL/min. These results suggest that the CIF approach will enable users in many fields to now apply the advantages of microfluidic devices to particle separation, even for applications requiring macroscale flowrates. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Copyright 2016 Scientific Reports. This is a post-print version of a published paper that is available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35943.pdf Recommended citaiton: Xia, Hui, Briony C. Strachan, Sean C. Gifford, and Sergey S. Shevkoplyas. "A high-throughput microfluidic approach for 1000-fold leukocyte reduction of platelet-rich plasma." Scientific reports 6 (2016): 35943. DOI: 10.1038/srep35943 This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6193 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Scientific Reports | |
| dc.subject | Biomedical engineering | |
| dc.subject | Microfluids | |
| dc.title | A high-throughput microfluidic approach for 1000-fold leukocyte reduction of platelet-rich plasma | |
| dc.type | article |