Tattoo Inks for Optical Biosensing in Interstitial Fluid - PubMed

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Tattoo Inks for Optical Biosensing in Interstitial Fluid

Martalu D Pazos et al. Adv Healthc Mater. 2021 Nov.

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• Correction to Tattoo Inks for Optical Biosensing in Interstitial Fluid.

  [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Adv Healthc Mater. 2025 Jan;14(3):e2404550. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202404550. Epub 2024 Dec 2. Adv Healthc Mater. 2025. PMID: 39623877 No abstract available.

Abstract

The persistence of traditional tattoo inks presents an advantage for continuous and long-term health monitoring in point of care devices. The replacement of tattoo pigments with optical biosensors aims a promising alternative for monitoring blood biomarkers. Tattoo inks functionalization enables the control of interstitial biomarkers with correlated concentrations in plasma, to diagnose diseases, evaluate progression, and prevent complications associated with physio pathological disorders or medication mismatches. The specific biomarkers in interstitial fluid provide a new source of information, especially for skin diseases. The study of tattoo inks displays insufficient regulation in their composition, a lack of reports of the related complications, and a need for further studies on their degradation kinetics. This review focuses on tattoo optical biosensors for monitoring dermal interstitial biomarkers and discusses the clinical advantages and main challenges for in vivo implantation. Tattoo functionalization provides a minimally invasive, reversible, biocompatible, real-time sensing with long-term permanence and multiplexing capabilities for the control, diagnosis, and prevention of illness; it enables self-controlling management by the patient, but also the possibility of sending the records to the doctor.

Keywords: health monitoring; interstitial fluids; optical biosensors; tattoos.

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