Medicine/ health care

[bballmango]

Hi
I am planing to do a science fair project on improving the glucose testing system. I want to come up with a way to test the amount of glucose in the blood without actually taking a sample of the blood. To do this, I need to know what is the absoption spectrum of glucose.
Thank you so much!

[matthewmulanax]

You have selected an interesting project. The following web sites will give you and idea of how to approach the problem of measuring glucose.
Lecture Connections: Copper in Brass
spectrum. 6.3. A UV-vis spectrum is produced by the absorption of light. color. 24.5, 24.6 ... a 1.0 M stock solution of glucose is diluted to a total volume ...
icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/NewNavigator/lec/lecbrassv2.html - Cached
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Basic UV-Vis Theory, Concepts and Applications
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Figure 5 Idealized absorption spectrum ... glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconalactone (a reaction catalysed by glucose-6-phosphate ...
http://www.thermo.com/eThermo/CMA/PDFs/ ... _12067.pdf
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UV/Vis Light Absorption in Clinical Chemistry
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... visible (UV/VIS) absorption spectroscopy has ... The UV/VIS range of the electromagnetic spectrum ... An example of this is the portable glucose monitoring ...
las.perkinelmer.com/.../Articles/ATL_UVVisInClinicalChemistry.pdf
Two Modes of Ligand Binding in Maltose-binding Protein of Escherichia ...
... region below 265 nm of its UV absorption spectrum (R mode, for red) and another ... Shifts from glucose to certain secondary carbon-sources result in ...
www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/272/28/17605 - 106k

Good luck.

Matthew W. Mulanax

[barretttomlinson]

Hi,

You may be interested in the following pages:

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/ ... frared.htm

http://www.opticsreport.com/content/art ... 002&page=2

http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/Ge ... s&gifs=yes

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/s ... rmat=print

http://www.mina.ubc.ca/files/Sahba_PTL2_v2_noUL.pdf

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090004682


This paper has a figure and table containing the data I think you are asking for:

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/eq/v31n3/02.pdf

Just a quick scan with Google shows that this is an area of intense interest at the present time. If you can make a significant contribbution it will be a really important achievement!

Good luck!!!!

Barrett Tomlinson

[TroyPercival]

There is actually a noninvasive blood glucose monitoring device that is FDA clear.

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/g ... /index.htm

[adance]

This is a neat topic. I am a science journalist and I recently wrote an article about a device, currently under development, that does just what you're describing: http://www.energy.gov/discovery/electro ... escue.html

[I_prefer_not_to_say]

There is actually a noninvasive blood glucose monitoring device that is FDA clear.

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/g ... /index.htm

That is not noninvasive! It still goes in your body!