Papers by Eduardo Garcia-Rico
Blood-based biomarkers (liquid biopsy) offer extremely valuable tools for the non-invasive diagno... more Blood-based biomarkers (liquid biopsy) offer extremely valuable tools for the non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of tumors. The protein c-MYC, a transcription factor that has been shown to be deregulated in up to 70% of human cancers, can be used as a robust proteomic signature for cancer. Herein, we developed a rapid, highly specific and sensitive SERS assay for the quantification of c-MYC in real blood samples. The sensing scheme relies on the use of specifically designed hybrid plasmonic materials and their bioderivatization with a selective peptidic receptor modified with a SERS transducer. Peptide/c-MYC recognition events translate into measurable alterations of the SERS spectra associated with a molecular orientation of the transducer, in agreement with the surface selection rules. The efficiency of the sensor is demonstrated in cellular lines, healthy donors and a cancer patient. The molecular characterization of tumors is consistently applied in clinical oncology to guide...
Simple Summary The distinct molecular and biological properties of exosomes, together with their ... more Simple Summary The distinct molecular and biological properties of exosomes, together with their abundance and stability, make them an ideal target in liquid biopsies for early diagnosis and disease monitoring. On the other hand, in recent years, nanomaterial-based optical biosensors have been extensively investigated as novel, rapid and sensitive tools for exosome detection and discrimination. The scope of this review is to summarize and coherently discussed the diverse applications, challenges and limitations of nanosensors based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as the optosensing technique. Abstract Exosomes are emerging as one of the most intriguing cancer biomarkers in modern oncology for early cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment monitoring. Concurrently, several nanoplasmonic methods have been applied and developed to tackle the challenging task of enabling the rapid, sensitive, affordable analysis of exosomes. In this review, we specifically focus our atten...
Handbook of Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics
Japan Journal of Research
Journal of Clinical Oncology
e18202 Background: The faculty clinical activity in a comprehensive Cancer Center is difficult to... more e18202 Background: The faculty clinical activity in a comprehensive Cancer Center is difficult to measure. Time clinical units is the most common procedure worldwide. In our group we have developed a new system based on the daily real activity of each medical oncologist of our team. Methods: We collected the daily activity from january to december 2016 of each doctor considering different values( from 1 to 4)depending on the complexity of the activity. Follow up visit of a patient (1), treatment visit (2). Clinical trial visit or Inpatient visit (3) and New Patient First visit (4). Then we added all the daily values of each medical oncologist. Results: 2016 Clinical activity growth measured by traditional time methods was consider 31,5%. When we applicated our new method it was 33,4%. The clinical activity of each Oncology Unit changed clearly when we applied our method. For example , breast cancer unit change from 25% to 20 % of the global activity, GI Unit from 47% to 50%, Lung Un...
Oncotarget
Flow cytometry plots of MCF-7 and PBMCs samples with cell ratios (A) 1:10, (B) 1:100, (C) 1:1000,... more Flow cytometry plots of MCF-7 and PBMCs samples with cell ratios (A) 1:10, (B) 1:100, (C) 1:1000, (D) 1:10000 and (E) only PBMCs; upon incubation with 2-NBDG and CD45-APC for 30 minutes under hyperoxia conditions. (F-I) Distributions of fluorescence intensities for (F) 2-NBDG and (G) CD45-APC, in a sample with a 1:1000 MCF-7:PBMC ratio; and (H) 2-NBDG and (I) CD45-APC, in a sample of PBMC. Over 10 6 single-cell events were collected for each experiment.
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
AbstractThis paper presents an optofluidic device for cell discrimination with two independent in... more AbstractThis paper presents an optofluidic device for cell discrimination with two independent interrogation regions. Pumping light is coupled to the device, and cell fluorescence is extracted from the two interrogation zones by using optical fibers embedded in the optofluidic chip. To test the reliability of this device, AU-565 cells—expressing EpCAM and HER2 receptors—and RAMOS cells were mixed in a controlled manner, confined inside a hydrodynamic focused flow in the microfluidic chip and detected individually so that they could be discriminated as positive (signal reception from fluorescently labeled antibodies from the AU-565 cells) or negative events (RAMOS cells). A correlation analysis of the two signals reduces the influence of noise on the overall data.
Cancer Nanotechnology
Nowadays, one of the fundamental goals in medicine is the characterization of cancer for early di... more Nowadays, one of the fundamental goals in medicine is the characterization of cancer for early diagnosis, monitoring and treatment selection (precision medicine). To this end, techniques such as cytology (Schramm et al. 2011), immunohistochemistry (Gown 2008), genomics [i.e., fluorescent in situ hybridization, FISH (Gerami et al. 2009), polymerase chain reaction, PCR (Khan and Sadroddiny 2016)] and next-generation sequencing (Koboldt et al. 2013) are currently employed to investigate solid samples of tumor obtained by biopsy or surgery. Alternatively, imaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Verma et al. 2012), computerized tomography scan (CTS) (Pearce et al. 2012), positron emission tomography (PET) (Silvestri et al. 2013) and the different variants of ultrasound imaging such as endobronchial ultrasound imaging and echoendoscopy (Gu et al. 2009; Kuhl et al. 2005) are commonly applied directly on the patient. As cancer is a multifactorial disease; a combination of information using different technologies, various imaging agents and diverse biomarkers is required to avoid ambiguity. Thus, diagnosis is normally lengthy, expensive and, in many cases, cannot be performed recursively, as it would require monitoring the actual state of the disease and the efficiency of the treatment. In the last decade, many approaches have been developed to complement or even substitute the current methodologies in cancer diagnosis Abstract Early diagnosis, monitoring and treatment selection of cancer represent major challenges in medicine. The definition of the complex clinical and molecular landscape of cancer requires the combination of multiple techniques and the investigation of multiple targets. As a result, diagnosis is normally lengthy, expensive and, in many cases, cannot be performed recursively. In recent years, optical biosensors, especially those based on the unique properties of plasmonic nanostructures, have emerged as one of the most exciting tools in nanomedicine, capable of overcoming key limitations of classical techniques. In this review, we specifically focus our attention on the latest advances in optical biosensors exploiting surface-enhanced Raman scattering encoded particles for the characterization of tumor single cells (molecular biology) and tissues (immunohistochemistry and guided surgery), as well as their application in guided surgery or even in bioimaging of living organisms.
Chemical Society reviews, Jan 2, 2018
Plasmonic optical biosensors for the analysis of nucleic acids have drawn a great deal of interes... more Plasmonic optical biosensors for the analysis of nucleic acids have drawn a great deal of interest in nanomedicine because of their capability to overcome major limitations of conventional methods. Within this realm, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based sensing is progressively emerging as a powerful analytical tool beyond the basic grounds of academia to viable commercial products. SERS benefits from the synergistic combination between the intrinsic structural specificity and experimental flexibility of Raman spectroscopy, the extremely high sensitivity provided by plasmonic nanomaterials, and the tremendous advances in nanofabrication techniques and spectroscopic instrumentation. SERS application to nucleic acids analysis has been largely restricted to indirect sensing approaches, where a SERS reporter and oligonucleotide ligands are typically combined onto the nanomaterials to enable extrinsic detection of the target sequences. On the other hand, the acquisition of the ...
NPJ precision oncology, 2018
In this manuscript, we demonstrate the applicability of a metabolic liquid biopsy for the monitor... more In this manuscript, we demonstrate the applicability of a metabolic liquid biopsy for the monitoring and staging of patients with lung cancer. This method provides an unbiased detection strategy to establish a more precise correlation between CTC quantification and the actual burden of disease, therefore improving the accuracy of staging based on current imaging techniques. Also, by applying statistical analysis techniques and probabilistic models to the metabolic status and distribution of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) populations "perturbed" by the presence of CTCs, a new category of adaptive metabolic pattern biomarker (AMPB) is described and unambiguously correlated to the different clinical stages of the patients. In fact, this strategy allows for classification of different categories of disease within a single stage (stage IV) before computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans and with lower uncertainty.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Discrimination of single-point mutations … …inlarge fragments of the K-Ras gene by an optical app... more Discrimination of single-point mutations … …inlarge fragments of the K-Ras gene by an optical approach based on direct surfaceenhanced Raman scattering coupled with chemometrics is presented by R. A. Alvarez-Puebla, L. Guerrini et al. in their Communication on page 2381 ff.T he unambiguous classification of different mutations provides apotentially useful insight for diagnostics and treatment of cancer.
Angewandte Chemie
Die Diskriminierung von Einzelpunktmutationen … …i ng roßen Fragmenten des K-RAS-Gens mittels ein... more Die Diskriminierung von Einzelpunktmutationen … …i ng roßen Fragmenten des K-RAS-Gens mittels eines optischen, auf direkter oberflächenverstärkter Raman-Streuung basierenden und mit chemometrischen Methoden gekoppelten Ansatzes wird von R. A. Alvarez-Puebla, L. Guerrini et al. in der Zuschrift auf S. 2421 vorgestellt. Die eindeutige Klassifizierung unterschiedlicher Mutationen liefert einen fürd ie Diagnostik und die Behandlung von Krebs mçglicherweise brauchbaren Einblick.
Advanced Materials Interfaces
Angewandte Chemie, 2017
Point mutations in Ras oncogenes are routinely screened for diagnostics and treatment of tumors (... more Point mutations in Ras oncogenes are routinely screened for diagnostics and treatment of tumors (especially in colorectal cancer). Here, we develop an optical approach based on direct SERS coupled with chemometrics for the study of the specific conformations that single-point mutations impose on a relatively large fragment of the K-Ras gene (141 nucleobases). Results obtained offer the unambiguous classification of different mutations providing a potentially useful insight for diagnostics and treatment of cancer in a sensitive, fast, direct and inexpensive manner.
Advanced Materials Technologies, 2016
Advanced Materials Technologies, 2016
arthritis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, pneumonia, or bacteremia. [1] Also, S. aureus is one of t... more arthritis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, pneumonia, or bacteremia. [1] Also, S. aureus is one of the five most common causes of hospital-acquired infections and is often the cause of many postsurgical wound infections. Each year, around 500 000 patients in hospitals of the United States contract a staphylococcal infection mainly by S. aureus. [2] Mortality rates for S. aureus can be set at 25%-60% for infective endocarditis, 39%-67% for pulmonary infections, 22%-48% for bacteremia without a focus, and 7%-21%, 15%-17%, and 10% for catheter, skin and soft tissue, and urinary tract infections related bacteremias, respectively. [2,3] Mortality can be largely reduced by early administration of active antibiotic treatment. [2] Unfortunately, the time needed for obtaining a definitive bacterial identification using conventional blood cultures, [4] including matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry, [5] is around 12-24 h. Thus, during the last decades an enormous work has been devoted to develop alternative methods for faster
Langmuir
Changes in protein expression levels and protein structure may indicate genomic mutations and may... more Changes in protein expression levels and protein structure may indicate genomic mutations and may be related to some diseases. Therefore, the precise quantification and characterization of proteins can be used for disease diagnosis. Compared with several other alternative methods, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy is regarded as an excellent choice for the quantification and structural characterization of proteins. Herein, we review the main advance of using plasmonic nanostructures as SERS sensing platform for this purpose. Three design approaches, including direct SERS, indirect SERS, and SERS-encoded nanoparticles, are discussed in the direction of developing new precise approaches of quantification and characterization of proteins. While this Review is focused on proteins, in order to highlight concepts of SERS-based sensors also detection of other biomolecules will be discussed.
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Cirugía española, 2005
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is a diagnostic imaging tool with m... more 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is a diagnostic imaging tool with multiple applications in oncology. One of the more promising applications in breast cancer is noninvasive lymph node staging and detection of distant metastases, which may provide useful information about prognosis and treatment response. Published studies on FDG-PET applications in breast cancer detection and staging were reviewed. We also present our own experience in patients referred for preoperative staging of breast cancer. FDG-PET is very useful in evaluating dense breasts, multicentric disease and breast prostheses. The sensitivity of FDG-PET for nodal staging is low, and consequently it cannot replace either sentinel lymph node biopsy or histologic examination. However, it is more accurate than another noninvasive techniques and is very useful in internal mammary node chain evaluation. FDG-PET can improve and maybe replace conventional imaging in detecting metastatic disease, esp...
Endocrinología y Nutrición, 2008
Introducción. La tomografía por emisión de positrones con 18 F-fluorodeoxiglucosa (PET-FDG) es un... more Introducción. La tomografía por emisión de positrones con 18 F-fluorodeoxiglucosa (PET-FDG) es una técnica de diagnóstico por la imagen con numerosas aplicaciones en el campo de la oncología. En el cáncer de mama, concretamente, una de sus indicaciones más prometedoras es la estadificación no invasiva, tanto de la afección ganglionar como a distancia, lo cual tendría importantes repercusiones pronósticas y terapéuticas.
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2014
Background: Porous silicon particles (PSiPs) have been used extensively as drug delivery systems,... more Background: Porous silicon particles (PSiPs) have been used extensively as drug delivery systems, loaded with chemical species for disease treatment. It is well known from silicon producers that silicon is characterized by a low reduction potential, which in the case of PSiPs promotes explosive oxidation reactions with energy yields exceeding that of trinitrotoluene (TNT). The functionalization of the silica layer with sugars prevents its solubilization, while further functionalization with an appropriate antibody enables increased bioaccumulation inside selected cells.
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