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1 Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251; 2 Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; 3 Department of Medical Engineering, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-8513, Japan; and 4 Defense Science and Technology Organization, 205 Labs, Salisbury, South Australia, Australia 5108
Carbon monoxide (CO) has been implicated as a biological messenger molecule analogous to nitric oxide. A compact gas sensor based on a midinfrared laser absorption spectroscopy was developed for direct and real-time measurement of trace levels (in approximate pmol) of CO release by vascular cells. The midinfrared light is generated by difference frequency mixing of two nearinfrared lasers in a nonlinear optical crystal. A strong infrared absorption line of CO (4.61 µm) is chosen for convenient CO detection without interference from other gas species. The generation of CO from cultured vascular smooth muscle cells was detected every 20 s without any chemical modification to the CO. The sensitivity of the sensor reached 6.9 pmol CO. CO synthesis was measured from untreated control cells (0.25 nmol per 107 cells/h), sodium nitroprusside-treated cells (0.29 nmol per 107 cells/h), and hemin-treated cells (0.49 nmol per 107 cells/h). The sensor also detected decreases in CO production after the addition of the heme oxygenase (HO) inhibitor tin protoporphyrin-IX (from 0.49 to 0.02 nmol per 107 cells/h) and increases after the administration of the HO substrate hemin (from 0.27 to 0.64 nmol per 107 cells/h). These results demonstrate that midinfrared laser absorption spectroscopy is a useful technique for the noninvasive and real-time detection of trace levels of CO from biological tissues.
heme oxygenase; gas detection; difference frequency generation; vascular smooth muscle cells
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