Pre-clinical validation study of a miniaturized electrochemical immunoassay based on square wave voltammetry for early detection of carcinoembryonic antigen in human serum.

Flavio Dolores Martínez-Mancera, Patricia García-López, José Luis Hernández-López

Index: Clin. Chim. Acta 444 , 199-205, (2015)

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Abstract

The ELISA format for measuring carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) serves as a reference standard against which other assays are compared. Because the World Health Organization (WHO) increasingly recommends the use of serum CEA as a diagnostic tool for cancer, it is relevant to explore the reliability of the new decentralized CEA point-of-care-testing (POCT) technologies that are available to physicians and patients, in compliance with mandates of the clinical laboratories' regulatory agencies.Electrochemical immunoassay (ECIA) based on trace lead (Pb) analysis by anodic stripping techniques using sandwich-type immunocomplex conjugates: (MB)Ab/AgCEA/Ab(PbS), and a commercial ELISA test system with optical transmission.The ECIA provides better analytical performance than does the ELISA. The within assay precision coefficient of variance (%CVw) of the ECIA is lower than the value recommended by the Hong Kong Association of Medical Laboratories (HKAML), and the recoveries of CEA at 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 25.0 and 50.0 ng/ml are in the range of 99-110% for control serum samples. The ECIA showed a minimal positive bias of 0.0267 ± 0.3270 ng/ml (P=0.9389).The proposed CEA screening technology can be practically employed for decentralized clinical analysis of CEA in human serum. Therefore, it can be viewed as a control method for personalized therapy.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.