Device for actively removing a target component from blood or lymph of a vertebrate subject

• US 8,317,737 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2010
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gearbox LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Jung, Edward K. Y., Langer, Robert, Leuthardt, Eric C., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Sweeney, Elizabeth A., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): DEAK, LESLIE R
• Application Number:
  US12/803,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20110034908A1
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 604/4.01, 604/5.01, 604/5.04, 604/6.09, 604/6.08, 604/6.11, 604/500, 604/507, 604/508, 210/645, 210/501, 210/502.1, 210/745, 210/739
• US Class Current: 604/4.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14276 specially adapted for implantation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein for modulating the levels of one or more target components in the blood and/or lymph of a vertebrate subject for treatment of a disease or condition in the vertebrate subject. An implantable device is provided which includes a body defining at least one lumen configured for fluid flow; at least one first reservoir in communication with at least one lumen; one or more energy sources configured to provide energy to elicit one or more signal responses associated with one or more labels that bind to one or more target components in one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject; one or more sensors configured to detect the one or more signal responses associated with one or more labeled target components; and one or more reactive components in communication with the at least one lumen for release responsive to the one or more sensors.

Claims

1. An implantable device comprising:

a body defining at least one lumen configured for fluid flow;

at least one first reservoir in communication with the at least one lumen;

one or more energy sources configured to provide energy to elicit one or more signal responses associated with one or more labels that bind to one or more target components in one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject;

one or more sensors configured to detect the one or more signal responses associated with one or more labeled target components; and

one or more reactive components in communication with the at least one lumen and for release responsive to the one or more sensors, wherein the one or more reactive components are configured to modulate a physiological effect of the one or more target components in the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the at least one first reservoir includes the one or more labels.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one first reservoir includes a first gated mechanism responsive to the one or more sensors and configured to release the one or more labels into the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one first reservoir includes a first gated mechanism responsive to the one or more sensors and configured to expose the one or more labels to the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one first reservoir is disposed within the at least one lumen.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more signal responses further include one or more signal responses associated with an interior of the at least one lumen.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more signal responses are associated with an interior of the one or more of a blood vessel or a lymph vessel of the vertebrate subject.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more labeled target components include one or more of circulating cells or circulating emboli.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more labeled target components include one or more of tumor cells, emboli, misfolded proteins, aggregated proteins, autoimmune antibodies, infectious agents, or infected cells.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more labeled target components include one or more labeled target cells.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more labeled target components include an intracellular target component.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to detect the labeled target cell prior to obtaining a high resolution image of the labeled target cell.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to correlate the target cell image and the detected label.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensor is external to the at least one lumen.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensor is internal to the at least one lumen.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein the device includes a single unit.

17. The device of claim 1, wherein the device includes two or more separate units.

18. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to report to an outside source or to a computing device, and wherein the device is configured to report the detected one or more signal responses associated with the one or more labeled target components.

19. The device of claim 1, further including two or more parallel lumen configured to receive the one or more target components.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein a diameter of each of the two or more parallel lumen is approximately less than two cell diameters.

21. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more reactive components alters, arrests, disrupts, destroys, inactivates or ablates the one or more target components.

22. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more reactive components are configured within at least one second reservoir.

23. The device of claim 22, wherein the at least one second reservoir includes a second gated mechanism responsive to the one or more sensors and configured to release the one or more reactive components.

24. The device of claim 22, wherein the at least one second reservoir includes a second gated mechanism responsive to the one or more sensors and configured to expose the one or more reactive components.

25. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more reactive components include one or more reactive chemical components.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the one or more reactive chemical components include one or more of a denaturing agent, degradative agent, or binding agent.

27. The device of claim 25, wherein the one or more reactive chemical components are configured to bind to the at least one lumen or are configured to be released into the at least one lumen.

28. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more reactive components include one or more reactive biologic components.

29. The device of claim 28, wherein the one or more reactive biologic components include one or more phagocytic cell types.

30. The device of claim 28, wherein the one or more second reservoirs include a source for producing the one or more reactive biologic components.

31. The device of claim 28, wherein the one or more reactive biologic components include a protein, lipid micelle, liposome, polymer, a catalytic antibody, or a combination thereof.

32. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more reactive components include one or more reactive physical components.

33. The device of claim 32, wherein the one or more reactive physical components include one or more of polymers, imprinted polymers, or charged polymers.

34. The device of claim 1, further including at least one controllable flow barrier to the at least one lumen.

35. The device of claim 34, further including at least one controller in communication with the one or more sensors, and in communication with the at least one controllable flow barrier to the at least one lumen, wherein the controller is configured to control flow of the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid through the at least one lumen.

36. The device of claim 35, wherein at least one of the at least one first reservoir and at least one second reservoir is responsive to the at least one controller.

37. The device of claim 35, wherein the one or more energy sources are responsive to the at least one controller.

38. The device of claim 35, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control flow of the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid based on the one or more signal responses associated with the one or more labeled target components.

39. The device of claim 35, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control flow of the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid based on the label on the one or more target components.

40. The device of claim 35, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control flow of the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid and to control the presence of the one or more reactive chemical components in the one or more second reservoirs based on the label on the one or more target components.

41. The device of claim 1, further including at least one controller in communication with the one or more sensors, and in communication with the one or more energy sources, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control the one or more energy sources configured to provide energy to elicit one or more signal responses.

42. The device of claim 1, further including at least one controller in communication with the one or more sensors, wherein the at least one controller is configured to control release of the one or more reactive components configured to modulate the physiological effect of the one or more target components.

43. The device of claim 1, further including at least one programmable controller in communication with the at least one first reservoir.

44. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one controller and the one or more sensors are configured to control levels of the one or more target components to substantially attain a target level of the one or more target components in the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid of the vertebrate subject.

45. The device of claim 44, wherein the one or more sensors and the at least one controller are configured to control levels of the detected one or more target components to limit a deviation from the target level.

46. The device of claim 44, wherein the target level includes a desired concentration of the one or more target components in the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid.

47. The device of claim 44, wherein the target level includes a desired ratio of concentrations of two or more target components in the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid.

48. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include a biosensor, chemical sensor, physical sensor, or optical sensor.

49. The device of claim 48, wherein the one or more sensors include one or more of a recognition-based substrate, an aptamer-based substrate, an antibody-based substrate, surface plasmon resonance, genetically modified cells, or genetically modified cells with receptor-linked signaling.

50. The device of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to target the device to a site having an elevated level of the target components.

51. The device of claim 26, wherein the one or more binding agents are on a matrix adapted to the at least one second reservoirs, wherein the one or more binding agents are configured to sequester at least one of the one or more target components from the one or more of blood fluid or lymph fluid.

52. The device of claim 51, wherein the one or more binding agents include one or more of antibodies, receptors, or cognates configured to bind to at least one of the one or more target components.

53. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is intracorporeal.

54. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is at least partially extracorporeal.