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Interstitial Fluid is a complex sample, highly abundant in the human body that can give information regardingtissue secretion, intracellular signaling and tissue health status. The composition of the interstitial fluid can giveinformation regarding the processes occurring in muscles and alterations due to pathological changes occurringduring disease progression. Currently this sample has not yet been characterized within rare diseases like musculardystrophies. Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dytrophy is an inherited progressive myopathy, characterized by thedegeneration and progressive muscular fiber necrosis of muscles from the face, upper arms and lower limbs. It canbe diagnosed; but in an advanced stage where weakness in the muscles have already occur. Meanwhile there is nocurrent understanding of the mechanisms happening in the muscle. In this project an immunoassay protocol wasdeveloped using suspension bead array technology to create an optimal method to analyze the protein content ofthese samples. The technological platform allows antibody-based capturing and detection of protein targets frombiotinylated biological samples. By modifying an existing protocol for analysis of serum and plasma samplesabundance of 63 protein targets was measured in muscle interstitial fluid from healthy individuals and patientsaffected by facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD), The optimized steps were the sample pre-treatment, the assaybuffer dilution ratio and the incubation time for capturing the protein targets. The findings of this project indicatethat using 1 μl of muscle interstitial fluid sample with minimized dilution factor and 60-fold molar excess biotinrelative to sample protein concentration enables detection of Interstitial fluid protein components. The proteinsdetected are ret finger protein-like 4B (RFPL4B) and albumin in from affected muscle and histone cluster(HIST1H3A) and albumin in non affected muscle.

Interstitial Fluid is a complex sample, highly abundant in the human body that can give information regardingtissue secretion, intracellular signaling and tissue health status. The composition of the interstitial fluid can giveinformation regarding the processes occurring in muscles and alterations due to pathological changes occurringduring disease progression. Currently this sample has not yet been characterized within rare diseases like musculardystrophies. Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dytrophy is an inherited progressive myopathy, characterized by thedegeneration and progressive muscular fiber necrosis of muscles from the face, upper arms and lower limbs. It canbe diagnosed; but in an advanced stage where weakness in the muscles have already occur. Meanwhile there is nocurrent understanding of the mechanisms happening in the muscle. In this project an immunoassay protocol wasdeveloped using suspension bead array technology to create an optimal method to analyze the protein content ofthese samples. The technological platform allows antibody-based capturing and detection of protein targets frombiotinylated biological samples. By modifying an existing protocol for analysis of serum and plasma samplesabundance of 63 protein targets was measured in muscle interstitial fluid from healthy individuals and patientsaffected by facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD), The optimized steps were the sample pre-treatment, the assaybuffer dilution ratio and the incubation time for capturing the protein targets. The findings of this project indicatethat using 1 μl of muscle interstitial fluid sample with minimized dilution factor and 60-fold molar excess biotinrelative to sample protein concentration enables detection of Interstitial fluid protein components. The proteinsdetected are ret finger protein-like 4B (RFPL4B) and albumin in from affected muscle and histone cluster(HIST1H3A) and albumin in non affected muscle.