Journal: Npj Biosensing
Article Title: Microfluidic nanomagnetically isolated neuron- and astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles to differentiate Lewy body and Alzheimer’s disease
doi: 10.1038/s44328-026-00086-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Outline of study time-course and sample processing for EV isolation. Antemortem plasma samples with postmortem pathological confirmation of neurological diagnoses were processed to isolate cell-specific EVs using our mTENPO microfluidic platform, alongside plasma protein biomarkers using commercial digital ELISA, for patients with LBD ( n = 30), AD ( n = 31), AD/LBD ( n = 30), AD/ALB ( n = 19), and controls ( n = 27). B The mTENPO platform, illustrating the external magnet, inlet reservoir, outlet ports, and tubing connections to syringe pumps. Syringes are connected to the waste outlet for blocking, washing, and sample addition steps, and then replaced and switched to the lysate outlet before captured EVs are lysed on-chip. The inset shows a photo of the mTENPO chip with a quarter for scale. C Schematic of operation of the mTENPO platform for cell-specific EV isolation using antibody-labeled magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) for GluR2+ (top) and GLAST+ (bottom) EV pulldowns. D Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of GluR2+ EVs immobilized on the edges of pores of the mTENPO device’s surface. E SEM images of GLAST+ EVs immobilized on the edges of pores of the mTENPO device’s surface. F Representative cropped western blot images showing protein expression of GluR2, GLAST, and EV-associated marker TSG101 using mTENPO-isolated GluR2+ or GLAST + EV lysates from n = 2 human plasma samples. Full-length western blot images are shown in Supplementary Fig. .
Article Snippet: Briefly, 500 μL of patient plasma was incubated for 20 min at a concentration of 1 μg/mL with either biotinylated GluR2 capture antibody (GluR1 + GluR2 polyclonal antibody, Bioss bs-10042R-Biotin) for neuron-derived EVs per our previous work or biotinylated GLAST capture antibody [GLAST (ACSA-1) antibody, anti-human/mouse/rat Biotin, Miltenyi Biotec, 130-118-984] for astrocyte-derived EVs, where the use of GLAST as a protein target for astrocyte EV isolation has been previously reported , – , .
Techniques: Isolation, Clinical Proteomics, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Blocking Assay, Labeling, Electron Microscopy, Western Blot, Expressing, Marker