Rahong, Sakon

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Rahong, Sakon
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Rahong, S.
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    Unveiling massive numbers of cancer-related urinary-microRNA candidates via nanowires
    (2017-12-01)
    Yasui, Takao
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    Yanagida, Takeshi
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    Ito, Satoru
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    Konakade, Yuki
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    Takeshita, Daiki
    Analyzing microRNAs (miRNAs) within urine extracellular vesicles (EVs) is important for realizing miRNA-based, simple, and noninvasive early disease diagnoses and timely medical checkups. However, the inherent difficulty in collecting dilute concentrations of EVs (<0.01 volume %) from urine has hindered the development of these diagnoses and medical checkups. We propose a device composed of nanowires anchored into a microfluidic substrate. This device enables EV collections at high efficiency and in situ extractions of various miRNAs of different sequences (around 1000 types) that significantly exceed the number of species being extracted by the conventional ultracentrifugation method. The mechanical stability of nanowires anchored into substrates during buffer flow and the electrostatic collection of EVs onto the nanowires are the two key mechanisms that ensure the success of the proposed device. In addition, we use our methodology to identify urinary miRNAs that could potentially serve as biomarkers for cancer not only for urologic malignancies (bladder and prostate) but also for nonurologic ones (lung, pancreas, and liver). The present device concept will provide a foundation for work toward the long-term goal of urine-based early diagnoses and medical checkups for cancer.
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    Engineering Nanowire-Mediated Cell Lysis for Microbial Cell Identification
    (2019-02-26)
    Yasui, Takao
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    Yanagida, Takeshi
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    Shimada, Taisuke
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    Otsuka, Kohei
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    Takeuchi, Masaki
    Researchers have demonstrated great promise for inorganic nanowire use in analyzing cells or intracellular components. Although a stealth effect of nanowires toward cell surfaces allows preservation of the living intact cells when analyzing cells, as a completely opposite approach, the applicability to analyze intracellular components through disrupting cells is also central to understanding cellular information. However, the reported lysis strategy is insufficient for microbial cell lysis due to the cell robustness and wrong approach taken so far (i.e., nanowire penetration into a cell membrane). Here we propose a nanowire-mediated lysis method for microbial cells by introducing the rupture approach initiated by cell membrane stretching; in other words, the nanowires do not penetrate the membrane, but rather they break the membrane between the nanowires. Entangling cells with the bacteria-compatible and flexible nanowires and membrane stretching of the entangled cells, induced by the shear force, play important roles for the nanowire-mediated lysis to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and yeast cells. Additionally, the nanowire-mediated lysis is readily compatible with the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method because the lysis is triggered by simply introducing the microbial cells. We show that an integration of the nanowire-mediated lysis with LAMP provides a means for a simple, rapid, one-step identification assay (just introducing a premixed solution into a device), resulting in visual chromatic identification of microbial cells. This approach allows researchers to develop a microfluidic analytical platform not only for microbial cell identification including drug- and heat-resistance cells but also for on-site detection without any contamination.
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    Microheater-integrated zinc oxide nanowire microfluidic device for hybridization-based detection of target single-stranded DNA
    (2021-06-18)
    Takahashi, Hiromi
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    Yasui, Takao
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    Kashida, Hiromu
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    Makino, Koki
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    Shinjo, Keiko
    Detection of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has an impact on DNA analysis in liquid biopsies. However, current strategies to detect cfDNA have limitations that should be overcome, such as having low sensitivity and requiring much time and a specialized instrument. Thus, non-invasive and rapid detection tools are needed for disease prevention and early-stage treatment. Here we developed a device having a microheater integrated with zinc oxide nanowires (microheater-ZnO-NWs) to detect target single-stranded DNAs (ssDNAs) based on DNA probe hybridization. We confirmed experimentally that our device realized in-situ annealed DNA probes by which we subsequently detected target ssDNAs. We envision that this device can be utilized for fundamental studies related to nanobiodevice-based DNA detection.