iScience (Nov 2021)

Strong histamine torsion Raman spectrum enables direct, rapid, and ultrasensitive detection of allergic diseases

  • Haogang Zhu,
  • Shuo Liu,
  • Zijing Guo,
  • Kun Yan,
  • Jiancang Shen,
  • Zhiyong Zhang,
  • Jian Chen,
  • Yachong Guo,
  • Lizhe Liu,
  • Xinglong Wu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 11
p. 103384

Abstract

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Summary: Allergic diseases are closely related to degranulation and release of histamine and difficult to diagnose because non-allergic diseases also exhibit the same clinical symptoms as allergy. Here, we report direct, rapid, and ultrasensitive detection of histamine using low-frequency molecular torsion Raman spectroscopy. We show that the low-frequency (3) of histamine reaches 10−8 g/L in water and 10−6 g/L in serum. This scheme thus opens new lines of inquiry regarding the clinical diagnosis of allergic diseases.

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