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Wearable salivary uric acid mouthguard biosensor with integrated wireless electronics

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Kim, Jayoung, Imani, Somayeh, de Araujo, William R., Warchall, Julian, Valdés-Ramírez, Gabriela, Paixão, Thiago R.L.C., Mercier, Patrick P., Wang, Joseph·2015·Biosensors and Bioelectronics

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This article demonstrates an instrumented mouthguard capable of non-invasively monitoring salivary uric acid (SUA) levels. The enzyme (uricase)-modified screen printed electrode system has been integrated onto a mouthguard platform along with anatomically-miniaturized instrumentation electronics featuring a potentiostat, microcontroller, and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceiver. Unlike RFID-based biosensing systems, which require large proximal power sources, the developed platform enables real-time wireless transmission of the sensed information to standard smartphones, laptops, and other consumer electronics for on-demand processing, diagnostics, or storage. The mouthguard biosensor system offers high sensitivity, selectivity, and stability towards uric acid detection in human saliva, covering the concentration ranges for both healthy people and hyperuricemia patients. The new wireless mouthguard biosensor system is able to monitor SUA level in real-time and continuous fashion, and can be readily expanded to an array of sensors for different analytes to enable an attractive wearable monitoring system for diverse health and fitness applications.

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  • A wireless mouthguard biosensor used by Kim et al. detects uric acid to prevent diseases such as hyperuricemia, gout, and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.

    “Wearable saliva biosensors can have different configurations, such as a wireless mouthguard biosensor used by Kim et al. [156] to detect uric acid to prevent diseases such as hyperuricemia, gout, and Lesch–Nyhan syndrome.”
  • The authors' group demonstrated a mouthguard-based uric acid biosensor that incorporated anatomically miniaturized instrumentation electronics featuring a potentiostat, microcontroller, and a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) transceiver for monitoring salivary uric acid levels toward clinical applications.

    “We (J.K., J.W. et al.)36 have further continued development of oral-cavity sensors by demonstrating a mouthguard-based uric acid biosensor that incorporated anatomically miniaturized instrumentation electronics featuring a potentiostat, microcontroller, and a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) transceiver for monitoring salivary uric acid levels toward clinical applications (Fig. 6a).”

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  • The mouthguard uric acid platform enables non-invasive monitoring of blood uric acid levels, which is a biomarker for various diseases (e.g., hyperuricemia, gout and renal syndrome), and it displays highly sensitive, selective, stable and rapid response toward obtaining dynamic chemical data on salivary biomarkers in the oral cavity.

    “This platform enables non-invasive monitoring of blood uric acid levels, which is a biomarker for various diseases (e.g., hyperuricemia, gout and renal syndrome), and it displays highly sensitive, selective, stable and rapid response toward obtaining dynamic chemical data on salivary biomarkers in the oral cavity.”

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  • The efficacy of the salivary UA biosensor was successfully assessed in artificial saliva, undiluted human saliva, and in a hyperuricemia patient with and without medication control.

    “The efficacy of the biosensor was successfully assessed in artificial saliva, undiluted human saliva, and in a hyperuricemia patient with and without medication control.”
  • The untreated hyperuricemia patient showed a sustained high-SUA level for 5 h.

    “The untreated hyperuricemia patient showed a sustained high-SUA level for 5 h (Fig. 1e).”

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Authors
Kim, J., Imani, S., de Araujo, W. R., Warchall, J., Valdés-Ramírez, G., Paixão, T. R. L. C., Mercier, P. P., & Wang, J.
Affiliations
  • University of California System (US)
  • Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
Corresponding author
  • Mercier, Patrick P.
  • Wang, Joseph
Venue
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-12
Volume
74
Pages
1061-1068
ISSN
0956-5663 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1034491903
Cited by
678
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 49 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 83 · 2023: 74 · 2022: 95 · 2021: 84 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 1
FWCI
14.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biosensors and Bioelectronics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of NIH (R21EB019698)
  • Air Force Research Laboratory (through the FlexTech Consortium -LTR SUBK
  • FAPESP-BEPE (2014/00788-0)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-1144086)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Physical Sciences › Chemical Engineering › Bioengineering › Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Keywords
salivary uric acid, uric acid biosensor, mouthguards, wearable biosensors, uricase, screen-printed electrodes, wireless devices, Bluetooth Low Energy, hyperuricemia, real-time monitoring, non-invasive monitoring, potentiostat, microcontroller
MeSH terms
Computer Communication Networks, Conductometry, Equipment Design, Humans, Mouth Protectors, Saliva, Sensitivity and Specificity, Uric Acid, Reproducibility of Results, Biosensing Techniques, Systems Integration, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis, Hyperuricemia, Wireless Technology

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