A research team led by UC San Diego has, for the first time, shown that a wearable, non-invasive device can measure activity in human cervical nerves in clinical settings.
University of California - San DiegoJul 29 2024
We are encouraged by our results. The device is poised to provide an early diagnostic marker of pathogen infection, or inflammation from a pathological process." Troy Bu, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the study's first author. Inside a magnetically shielded room at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Magnetoencephalography Center, researchers placed sensors from their device at points of the vagus nerve beneath the right ear and over the right carotid artery, where both the vagus nerve and carotid sinus nerve are found. The device monitored heart rate and the magnetic fields arising from nerve activity.
Elevated levels of IL-10, on the other hand, can indicate patients at risk of immunoparalysis, a condition that occurs during sepsis when immune cells are unable to fight off either foreign or resident microbes, or resident viruses that can lead to uncontrolled infection and death.
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