Reduction of measurement noise in a continuous glucose monitor by coating the sensor with a zwitterionic polymer
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Xie, Xi; Doloff, Joshua C; Yesilyurt, Volkan; Sadraei, Atieh; McGarrigle, James J.; Omami, Mustafa; Veiseh, Omid; Farah, Shady; Isa, Douglas; Ghani, Sofia; Joshi, Ira; Vegas, Arturo; Li, Jie; Wang, Weiheng; Bader, Andrew; Tam, Hok Hei; Tao, Jun; Chen, Hui-jiuan; Yang, Boru; Williamson, Katrina Ann; Oberholzer, Jose; Langer, Robert S; Anderson, Daniel Griffith; ... Show more Show less
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© 2018, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), used by patients with diabetes mellitus, can autonomously track fluctuations in blood glucose over time. However, the signal produced by CGMs during the initial recording period following sensor implantation contains substantial noise, requiring frequent recalibration via finger-prick tests. Here, we show that coating the sensor with a zwitterionic polymer, found via a combinatorial chemistry approach, significantly reduces signal noise and improves CGM performance. We evaluated the polymer-coated sensors in mice as well as in healthy and diabetic non-human primates, and show that the sensors accurately record glucose levels without the need for recalibration. We also show that the coated sensors significantly abrogated immune responses, as indicated by histology, fluorescent whole-body imaging of inflammation-associated protease activity and gene expression of inflammation markers. The polymer coating may allow CGMs to become standalone measuring devices.
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2018-07-30Department
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & SciencePublisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Xie, Xi, Doloff, Joshua C, Yesilyurt, Volkan, Sadraei, Atieh, McGarrigle, James J. et al. 2018. "Reduction of measurement noise in a continuous glucose monitor by coating the sensor with a zwitterionic polymer." 2 (12).
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2157-846X