title: Dielectrophoretic discrimination of bovine red blood cell starvation age by buffer selection and membrane cross-linking.
abstract: We report an interesting buffer electric relaxation time tuning technique, coupled with a glutaraldehyde cross-linking cell fixation reaction, which allows for sensitive dielectrophoretic analysis and discrimination of bovine red blood cell (bRBC) starvation age. The buffer composition is selected such that two easily accessible dielectrophoretic crossover frequencies (cof) exist. Low concentration glutaraldehyde fixation was observed to produce a threefold decrease in the higher cof with a comparable increase in the lower cof also witnessed. More importantly, increased glutaraldehyde fixation concentration significantly increased the higher cof by a factor found to be sensitive to the bRBC starvation age.
authors.affiliation: Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
authors.forename: Jason E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Zachary
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authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.forename: Hsueh-Chia
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chang
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