title: A microfluidic paper-based analytical device for the assay of albumin-corrected fructosamine values from whole blood samples.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A method for acquiring albumin-corrected fructosamine values from whole blood using a microfluidic paper-based analytical system that offers substantial improvement over previous methods is proposed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The time required to quantify both serum albumin and fructosamine is shortened to 10 min with detection limits of 0.50 g dl(-1) and 0.58 mM, respectively (S/N = 3). The proposed system also exhibited good within-run and run-to-run reproducibility. The results of the interference study revealed that the acceptable recoveries ranged from 95.1 to 106.2%. The system was compared with currently used large-scale methods (n = 15), and the results demonstrated good agreement among the techniques.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The microfluidic paper-based system has the potential to continuously monitor glycemic levels in low resource settings.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Clinical Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
authors.forename: Yuwadee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Boonyasit
authors.forename: Wanida
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Laiwattanapaisal
mesh_terms: D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood*; D019270:Fructosamine / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D044085:Microfluidics; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin; D019270:Fructosamine