Affinity-based microdialysis sampling using heparin for in vitro collection of human cytokines

by Wang, Y. X.; Stenken, J. A.

Microdialysis sampling is a widely used method to sample from complex biological matrices. Cytokines are important signaling proteins that are typically recovered with low relative recovery values during microdialysis sampling. Heparin was included in the microdialysis perfusion fluid as an affinity agent to increase in vitro recovery of different cytokines through polyethersulfone (PES) microdialysis membranes with 100 kDa molecular weight cutoff. No change in fluid volumes collected from the microdialysis probes occurred when heparin was included in the perfusion fluid up to concentrations of 10 mu M. The loss of heparin (10 mu M) across the dialysis membrane was minimal (2.7 +/- 0.9%, n = 3). Additionally, heparin at these concentrations did not interfere with the cytokine immunoassays. The control and heparin-enhanced relative recoveries for five human cyrokines using 0.1 mu M heparin in the microdialysis perfusion fluid flowing at 0.5 mu L min(-1) were (n = 3): interleukin-4(IL-4), 4.2 +/- 0.5% and 7.2 +/- 3.1%; interleukin-6 (IL-6), 1.4 +/- 0.8% and 3.6 +/- 1.3%; interleukin-7 (IL-7), 1.3 +/- 0.8% and 4.8 +/- 1.8%; monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), 9.0 +/- 1.6% and 19.5 +/- 2.7%; and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), 7.4 +/- 1.3% and 16.9 +/- 1.6%, respectively. Heparin increased the microdialysis sampling relative recovery of several human cytokines in vitro.

Journal
Analytica Chimica Acta
Volume
651
Issue
1
Year
2009
Start Page
105-111
URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2009.08.009
ISBN/ISSN
1873-4324; 0003-2670
DOI
10.1016/j.aca.2009.08.009