Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Diagnosis and prognosis of myocardial infarction on a plasmonic chip

  • Wei Xu,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Ru Zhang,
  • Xuming Sun,
  • Lin Huang,
  • Haiyang Su,
  • Xunbin Wei,
  • Chia-Chun Chen,
  • Jiatao Lou,
  • Hongjie Dai,
  • Kun Qian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15487-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The gold standard for diagnosis and monitoring of myocardial infarction is a chemiluminescence assay based on the detection of cardian troponin I (cTnI). Here, the authors develop a plasmonic gold nano-island chip assay for ultrasensitive detection of cTnI in as little as 10 μL of serum.