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CMOS-based microanalysis systems

Sandro Carrara, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Tugba Kilic

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)-based microanalysis involves a wide variety of devices, technologies, methods, and approaches, as extensively detailed in scientific literature. For example, we can find the use of CMOS- in investigations on p ...

Elsevier2022

Milk Allergen Detection: Sensitive Label-Free Voltammetric Immunosensor Based on Electropolymerization

Sandro Carrara, Paul Jean Philipp, Tugba Kilic

We present in this work, first time in literature, a voltammetric label-free biosensor for detection of alpha lactalbumin (alpha-LB) in meal samples. Food allergy concern necessitates strict regulations in food labelling and innovative monitoring strategie ...

2020

Electrochemical determination of nicotine in smokers' sweat

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic

In this work, we report the demonstration of the capability of electrochemical sensors to provide measurements directly on the sweat of volunteers to successfully discriminate heavy smokers by light ones. Since its importance as pharmaceutical treatment-ag ...

ELSEVIER2020

Enhanced Sensing of Interleukin 8 by Stripping Voltammetry: Carbon Nanotubes versus Fullerene

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic, Sarah Tonello

The ability to detect protein biomarkers at a subnanomolar level represents a pervasive challenge in order to bring a significant improvement in early diagnosis or progression of pato-physiological processes. To this aim, Screen Printed Electrochemical Sen ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD2018

An IoT Solution for Online Monitoring of Anesthetics in Human Serum Based on an Integrated Fluidic Bioelectronic System

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Danilo Demarchi, Tugba Kilic, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Nadia Tamburrano, Zijian Huang

In this paper, we present the design, the implementation and the validation of a novel Internet of Things (IoT) drug monitoring system for the online continuous and simultaneous detection of two main anesthetics, e.g., propofol and paracetamol, in undilute ...

2018

Organs-on-chip monitoring: sensors and other strategies

Philippe Renaud, Sandro Carrara, Fatemeh Navaee, Francesca Stradolini, Tugba Kilic

As a paradigm shifting player of tissue engineering, organs-on-chips (OOCs) are considered to hold great potential for future “clinical trials on chip” as well as a step forward to design personalized medicine. Despite all ethical concerns raised by commun ...

2018

A Flexible Front-End for Wearable Electrochemical Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Danilo Demarchi, Tugba Kilic, Francesca Criscuolo, Lucia Lobello

This work presents the design and the realization of a flexible front-end circuitry for electrochemical sensing with wearable devices. The hardware combines readout circuitry for amperometric and Open Circuit Potential (OCP) measurements. The sensing platf ...

IEEE2018

Fouling-resistant pencil graphite electrode

Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Tugba Kilic

A Pencil Graphite Electrode (PGE) is herein disclosed. The electrode is characterized by a reduced content in graphite and an increased content in clay of the composite material composing it compared to the prior art PGEs. In particular, the PGE according ...

2018

A novel psychoanalytical approach: An electrochemical ligand-binding assay to screen antipsychotics

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic

Schizophrenia treatment may see a paradigm shift due to development of new atypical antipsychotic drugs (APDs), with better tolerability due to more selective dopamine (DA) receptor blockade. Monitoring of these APD candidates in biological fluids is of gr ...

2018

Raspberry-Pi based system for propofol monitoring

Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Danilo Demarchi, Tugba Kilic

Induction of anesthesia with propofol is a largely adopted technique in hospital environments. The correct dosage of this compound is essential to avoid under- or over-anesthesia that may result in serious side-effects. Therefore, in clinical settings, lon ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Cleaning strategy for carbon-based electrodes: Long-term propofol monitoring in human serum

Giovanni Boero, Giovanni De Micheli, Irene Taurino, Francesca Stradolini, Tugba Kilic

In this work, we present a novel electrochemical cleaning procedure for long-term electrochemical monitoring of propofol by using boron-doped diamond (BDD) and pencil graphite electrode (PGE). Propofol is an anesthetic that is widely used for long-lasting ...

2018

microRNA biosensors: Opportunities and challenges among conventional and commercially available techniques

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic

As being the most extensively studied, non-coding, evolutionary conserved, post-transcriptional gene regulators of genome, microRNAs (miRNAs) have taken great attention among various disciplines due to their important roles in biological processes and link ...

2018

Label-free detection of hypoxia-induced extracellular vesicle secretion from MCF-7 cells

Philippe Renaud, Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic, Ana Teresa De Sousa Valinhas

Nanoscale extracellular vesicles (EVs) including exosomes (50–150 nm membrane particles) have emerged as promising cancer biomarkers due to the carried genetic information about the parental cells. However the sensitive detection of these vesicles remains ...

Nature Research2018

Mining the Potential of Label-Free Biosensors for In Vitro Antipsychotic Drug Screening

Sandro Carrara, Hatice Altug, Maria Soler Aznar, Tugba Kilic

The pharmaceutical industry is facing enormous challenges due to high drug attribution rates. For the past decades, novel methods have been developed for safety and efficacy testing, as well as for improving early development stages. In vitro screening met ...

2018

An electrochemical sensor for quantitative analysis of Rhesus D antibodies in blood

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Tugba Kilic, Francesca Criscuolo

The Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN), if untreated, can have severe consequences on baby’s health, eventually causing death. Prevention and diagnosis of pregnancies at risk of HDFN consists in quantitative analysis in hospital every 2-4 we ...

IEEE2017

A novel method for sensitive microRNA detection: Electropolymerization based doping

Tugba Kilic

In the proposed study, for the first time, sensitive electrochemical detection of a breast cancer biomarker microRNA (miRNA), mir-21 was achieved via electropolymerized polypyrrole (PPy) modified pencil graphite electrodes (PPy/PGE). The detection of hybri ...

Elsevier Advanced Technology2017