title: An in vivo quantitative Raman-pH sensor of arterial blood based on laser trapping of erythrocytes.
abstract: We report on a continuous and non-invasive approach in vivo to monitor arterial blood pH based on the laser trapping and Raman detection of single live erythrocytes. A home-built confocal laser tweezers Raman system (LTRS) is applied to trace the live erythrocytes at different pH values of the extracellular environment to record their corresponding Raman changes in vitro and in vivo. The analysis results in vitro show that when the extracellular environment pH changes from 6.5 to 9.0, the Raman intensity ratio (R1603, 1616 = I1603/I1616) of single erythrocytes decrease regularly; what is more, there is a good linear relationship between these two variables, and the linearity is 0.985, which is also verified successfully via in vivo Raman measurements. These results demonstrate that the Raman signal of single live erythrocytes is possible as a marker of the extracellular pH value. This in vivo and quantitative Raman-pH sensor of arterial blood will be an important candidate for monitoring the acid-base status during the treatment of ill patients and in some major surgeries because of its continuous and non-invasive characters.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. agshen@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Manman
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biophysics, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning 530003, China. huiluy@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biophysics, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning 530003, China. huiluy@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Huilu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. agshen@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Aiguo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. agshen@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jiming
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D052898:Optical Tweezers; D059010:Single-Cell Analysis; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman