PMID- 32786430 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210216 LR - 20210216 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 92 IP - 18 DP - 2020 Sep 15 TI - Direct Quantification of Single Red Blood Cell Hemoglobin Concentration with Multiphoton Microscopy. PG - 12235-12241 LID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01609 [doi] AB - Blood disorders, diseases, and infections often affect the shape, number, and content of red blood cells (RBCs) dramatically. To combat these pathologies, many therapies target RBCs and their contents directly. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) is an important pathological metric in both identification and treatment. However, current methods for RBC analysis and MCHC quantification rely on bulk measurements. Single RBC measurements could provide necessary insight into the heterogeneity of RBC health and improve therapeutic efficacy. In this study, we present a novel multimodal multiphoton approach for quantifying hemoglobin concentration at single RBC resolution. We achieve this by collecting two images simultaneously that allows us to excite water with stimulated Raman scattering and hemoglobin with transient absorption. This multimodal imaging is enabled by a newly designed orthogonal modulation theme for dual-channel lock-in detection. By leveraging water as an internal standard, we quantify MCHC of healthy RBCs and RBCs infected with Plasmodium yoelii, a commonly studied rodent parasite model. FAU - Francis, Andrew T AU - Francis AT AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3192-5260 AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States. FAU - Shears, Melanie J AU - Shears MJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8226-4354 AD - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, 750 Republican Street, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States. FAU - Murphy, Sean C AU - Murphy SC AD - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, 750 Republican Street, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States. FAU - Fu, Dan AU - Fu D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9243-8306 AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200825 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 RN - 0 (Hemoglobins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Erythrocytes/*chemistry/parasitology MH - Hemoglobins/*analysis MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - *Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton MH - *Single-Cell Analysis EDAT- 2020/08/14 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/17 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/14 06:00 PHST- 2020/08/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/14 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01609 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2020 Sep 15;92(18):12235-12241. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01609. Epub 2020 Aug 25.