Posted on 04/18/2021 4:55:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Scientists have unveiled a new sweat sensor that can anticipate a looming cytokine storm and provide warning to doctors and patients.
Cytokine storms feature a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins. They can be triggered by a variety of infections, including COVID-19 and the flu. Studies have linked cytokine storms with more severe COVID-19 infections.
Developers are scheduled to present the new wristwatch-like device Friday at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. The presentation will be streamed online at 5:15 p.m. EDT.
"Especially now in the context of COVID-19, if you could monitor pro-inflammatory cytokines and see them trending upwards, you could treat patients early, even before they develop symptoms," lead researcher Shalini Prasad, professor of systems biology science at the University of Texas at Dallas, said in a news release.
Once the onslaught of cytokine proteins has arrived, a runaway cycle of inflammation can damage organs and even result in death. But with sufficient warning, an impending cytokine storm can be headed off by steroids and other therapies.
By helping doctors catch and treat cytokine storms before they turn severe, the new sweat sensor could help lower COVID mortality rates and shorten hospital stays, relieving pressure on medical resources.
Cytokines are excreted at lower levels in sweat than in blood, but efforts to induce larger amounts of sweat for sampling -- by having volunteers exercise or by applying a small electrical current to patient's skin -- altered cytokine levels.
"When it comes to cytokines, we found that you have to measure them in passive sweat," Prasad said. "But the big challenge is that we don't sweat much, especially in air-conditioned environments."
Instead of trying to induce higher quantities of sweat, researchers developed an extremely sensitive sensor. Prasad and her research partners adapted technology originally used to detect markers for inflammatory bowel disease.
The IBD sweat sensor, which features a disposable sensor attached to an electronic reader, is produced by EnLiSense LLC, a company co-founded by Prasad. The sensor features a pair of electrodes and is coated with antibodies that bind to two proteins associated with IBD flare-ups.
RELATED Pangolin immune system may hold clues to COVID-19 treatment To make the new cytokine-sensitive sweat sensor, dubbed SWEATSENSER Dx, researchers substituted antibodies that bind to a variety of pro-inflammatory proteins: interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand, IL-10, interferon-γ-induced protein-10 and C-reactive protein.
In tests on healthy individuals, the sweat sensor measured low cytokine levels -- concentrations that matched the levels picked up in blood serum samples. When they tested the sweat sensor on patients infected with the flu, the technology successfully identified rising levels of cytokine proteins in two of the patients.
The sensor was able to accurately track cytokine levels for up to 168 hours before the strip coated with antibodies needed to be replaced.
A number of wearable devices and biomedical technologies -- originally designed to capture a variety of health data, including heartbeat and respiratory rates -- have been offered as tools for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, but the latest device is one of the first products designed specifically to track COVID-19-related biometrics.
EnLiSense is currently working with scientists to test their product in a clinical trial involving patients with respiratory infections.
"Access to COVID-19 patients has been a challenge because healthcare workers are overwhelmed and don't have time to test investigational devices," Prasad said. "But we're going to continue to test it for all respiratory infections because the disease trigger itself doesn't matter -- it's what's happening with the cytokines that we're interested in monitoring."
Can they make this injectable? Because that would be awesome!
Just some questions.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And they are all good ones to be asking.
I have several:
1) If you have any question as to whether the Alinsky Biden administration wants to extent the pandemic, just look at the ZERO reason they had to take down the J&J vaccine. Arguably the one that works the best against variants.WHY?
Our own government continues to expand its war against the People.
2) Why is the CDC not proomoting the use of Ivermectin as both prophylaxis and therapy, Its used by millions opf health care workers. That way we would have a free and open society , while beating this virus?
Dosages:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-I-MASK-Protocol-v4-2020-11-22.pdf
Source:
https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/ivermectin.html
Dr. Pierre Kory charts:The science proving Ivermectin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
Treat them with what? How would they treat them? You can't use HCQ because Fauxi said that even a single tablet roaming the streets can kill twenty million people with the sharp edges of its packaging and cause male pattern baldness while it does so.
You have me rolling on the floor already this morning. Thanks
Good point early intervention would save lives and costs. Why do they deny that?
There's Free Republic post somewhere on this but my search skills suck.
Paragraph #5: “...an impending cytokine storm can be headed off by steroids”
Sweat? What is that? It’s similar to work, that’s what it is. I refuse it. Just say no. After any exertion (yuck!), just lay down until respiration returns to normal.
In that connection,
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.21252960v1.full
COVID-19 spike protein produces coagulopathy all by itself even without invading cells.
(20% or more of COVID victims have blood clotting issues after infection, see https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30383-7/fulltext).
So what does the Deep State do in response to the coof?
Insist on widespread, undertested injections of mRNA to stimulate production of spike protein in vivo.
(Note according to the first article I quoted, the spike protein is covered with polysaccharides to help it hide from the immune system. That doesn’t sound to me like that would make the spike a particularly good candidate for an erstwhile “vaccine” ...)
Hmmmm... yet another feature which can be added to the APPLE WATCH.
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