1 Review 2 3 Neurological connections and endogenous biochemistry - potentially useful in electronic- 4 nose diagnostics for coronavirus diseases 5 6 Tiffany C. Miller1, Salvatore D. Morgera1, Stephen E. Saddow1,2, Arash Takshi1, Matthew 7 Mullarkey3, Matthew Palm4 8 9 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. 10 2Department of Medical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. 11 3Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. 12 4Valhall K-9 International, LLC, Hull, GA 30646, USA. 13 14 Correspondence to: Dr. Salvatore D. Morgera, Department of Electrical Engineering, 15 University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620, USA, E-mail: 16
[email protected] 17 18 How to cite this article: Miller TC, Morgera SD, Saddow SE, Takshi A, Mullarkey M, Palm M. 19 Neurological connections and endogenous biochemistry - potentially useful in electronic-nose 20 diagnostics for coronavirus diseases. Neuroimmunol Neuroinflammation 2021;8:[Accept]. 21 http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2347-8659.2021.05 22 23 Received: 23 Feb 2021 Revised: 11 Jun 2021 Accepted: 29 Jun 2021 First online: 14 Jul 24 2021 25 26 27 ABSTRACT 28 As our understanding of infectious diseases, such as coronavirus diseases including, Coronavirus 29 Disease 2019 (COVID-19), as well as human respiratory viral and nonviral diseases, improves, 30 we expect to uncover a better understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease as it relates to 31 neuroinflammation. This may include associated biomarkers of immune response for 1 32 neuroinflammation, central nervous system injury, and/or peripheral nervous system injury 33 emitted from the breath and/or odor of an individual.