Single-use glucose test strips have allowed people with diabetes to monitor and control their blood sugar on a daily basis, but such control would be expected to improve drastically more with reliable, user-friendly, continuous sensing systems that were either implanted or noninvasive and so avoided drawing blood. In 1997 a volume described the emerging technologies; the studies here describe and evaluate the variety of commercial products now on the market and efforts to improve them. Chemists and biomedical engineers, almost all in academia rather than industry, discuss such topics as the macrophage in wound healing surrounding implanted devices, a window to observe the foreign body reaction to glucose sensors, transdermal micro-fluidic continuous monitoring, glucose sensors that release nitric oxide subcutaneously, and near-infrared and Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive glucose sensing. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In Vivo Glucose Sensing is a key reference for scientists and engineers working on the development of glucose sensing technologies for the management of diabetes and other medical conditions. It discusses the analytical chemistry behind the strategies currently used for measuring glucose in vivo. It focuses on analyzing samples in the real world and discusses the biological complexities that make glucose sensing difficult. Covering current implantable devices, next-generation implantable sensing methods, and non-invasive methods for measuring glucose, this book concludes with an overview of possible applications other than diabetes.
