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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2016

Recent Advances in Biosensor Technology for Potential Applications - An Overview.

S Vigneshvar, C C Sudhakumari, Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran, Hridayesh Prakash

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
140citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
24.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 636 citations in OpenAlex.

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80 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

S VigneshvarVIT University Chennai Campus , Chennai , India.
C C SudhakumariDepartment of Animal Biology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India; School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Balasubramanian SenthilkumaranDepartment of Animal Biology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India; School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Hridayesh PrakashSchool of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad , India.
University of Hyderabad · INVellore Institute of Technology University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imperative utilization of biosensors has acquired paramount importance in the field of drug discovery, biomedicine, food safety standards, defense, security, and environmental monitoring. This has led to the invention of precise and powerful analytical tools using biological sensing element as biosensor. Glucometers utilizing the strategy of electrochemical detection of oxygen or hydrogen peroxide using immobilized glucose oxidase electrode seeded the discovery of biosensors. Recent advances in biological techniques and instrumentation involving fluorescence tag to nanomaterials have increased the sensitive limit of biosensors. Use of aptamers or nucleotides, affibodies, peptide arrays, and molecule imprinted polymers provide tools to develop innovative biosensors over classical methods. Integrated approaches provided a better perspective for developing specific and sensitive biosensors with high regenerative potentials. Various biosensors ranging from nanomaterials, polymers to microbes have wider potential applications. It is quite important to integrate multifaceted approaches to design biosensors that have the potential for diverse usage. In light of this, this review provides an overview of different types of biosensors being used ranging from electrochemical, fluorescence tagged, nanomaterials, silica or quartz, and microbes for various biomedical and environmental applications with future outlook of biosensor technology.

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bioelectronicsbiosensorsdiseaseselectrochemicalfluorescence-tagmicrobesnanomaterialspolymer

Identifiers

PMID26909346
PMCPMC4754454
OpenAlexW2284805588

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