Prototype of a breath-based analysis system for medication compliance monitoring.

abstract：:Exhaled breath collection is used to identify and monitor inflammatory or oxidative components in breath. Exhaled breath sample collection is noninvasive and would greatly benefit human pollutant exposure research. We demonstrate the efficacy of exhaled breath collection and analysis in two human exposure studies to o...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Sawyer K,Samet JM,Ghio AJ,Pleil JD,Madden MC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to evaluate tonsil odor as a contributor to halitosis and to study the reduction of oral malodor by mouth rinsing, without tonsil treatment. In 48 halitosis patients, tonsil odor and oral malodor were assessed through the 0-5 scale. In tonsil odor assessment, a dental burnisher was inser...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Talebian A,Tazhibi M,Iranpoor R,Semyari H,Taherzadeh M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) is a marker of airway inflammation. Measuring FENO at multiple flow rates enables calculation of NO parameters: bronchial NO output (J awNO), bronchial wall (C awNO) and alveolar (C ANO) NO concentrations, and bronchial diffusion factor of NO (D awNO). FENO is known to rapidly re...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Karvonen T,Sepponen-Lavikko A,Holm K,Schultz R,Moilanen E,Lehtimäki L

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) may depend not only on biochemical or pathologic processes but also on physiological parameters. As breath sampling may be done in different body positions, effects of the sampling position on exhaled VOC concentrations were investigated by means of real-time...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Sukul P,Trefz P,Kamysek S,Schubert JK,Miekisch W

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a common bacterium infecting children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Since current detection methods are difficult to perform in children, there is need for an alternative. This proof of concept study investigates whether breath profiles can discriminate between S. aureus infected and ...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Neerincx AH,Geurts BP,van Loon J,Tiemes V,Jansen JJ,Harren FJ,Kluijtmans LA,Merkus PJ,Cristescu SM,Buydens LM,Wevers RA

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species are associated with tissue inflammation and injury. Our laboratory has demonstrated that ethane, a stable product of lipid peroxidation, in exhaled breath can be used to measure total body oxidative stress. Herein patients were studied who underwent outpatient surgery, laproscopic bilateral tub...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Brown RH,Risby TH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent progress in Critical Care Medicine, sepsis is still a major medical problem with a high rate of mortality and morbidity especially in intensive care units. Oxidative stress induced by inflammation associated with sepsis causes degradation of heme protein, increases microsomal free heme content, promotes...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Morimatsu H,Takahashi T,Matsusaki T,Hayashi M,Matsumi J,Shimizu H,Matsumi M,Morita K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in breath may be considered biomarkers if they are indicative of distinct diseases or disease states. Given the inherent molecular selectivity of vibrational spectroscopy, infrared sensing technologies appear ideally suitable for the determination of endogenous VOCs in breath...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Perez-Guaita D,Kokoric V,Wilk A,Garrigues S,Mizaikoff B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled air contains sub-micron droplets of lung liquid, which potentially bear biomarkers of lung diseases. After dehydration they form dry residue particles (DRPs). As a first step in developing techniques to characterize individual DRPs, a new electrostatic collector was designed in which DRPs are charged within a ...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Morozov VN,Mikheev AY

更新日期：2017-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies using trained dogs to identify breath odour markers of human cancer, published in the recent decade, have been analyzed and compared with the authors' own results. Particular published studies differ as regards the experimental setup, kind of odour samples (breath, urine, tumor tissue, serum), sam...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Jezierski T,Walczak M,Ligor T,Rudnicka J,Buszewski B

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractional exhaled NO (FeNO) is universally considered an indirect marker of eosinophilic airways inflammation, playing an important role in the physiopathology of childhood asthma. Advances in technology and standardization have allowed a wider use of FeNO in clinical practice in children from the age of four years. ...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Piacentini GL,Cattazzo E,Tezza G,Peroni DG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)/emphysema risk groups are well defined and screening allows for early identification of disease. The capability of exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to detect emphysema, as found by computed tomography (CT) in current and former heavy smokers participating in a lung...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Cristescu SM,Gietema HA,Blanchet L,Kruitwagen CL,Munnik P,van Klaveren RJ,Lammers JW,Buydens L,Harren FJ,Zanen P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells prefer hyperglycolysis versus oxidative phosphorylation, even in the presence of oxygen. This phenomenon is used through the FDG-PET scans, and may affect the exhaled volatile signature. This study investigates the volatile signature in lung cancer (LC) before and after an oral glucose tolerance test (OGT...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Feinberg T,Alkoby-Meshulam L,Herbig J,Cancilla JC,Torrecilla JS,Gai Mor N,Bar J,Ilouze M,Haick H,Peled N

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A point-of-care, non-invasive, low-cost and sensitive nano-biodiagnostic is needed in today's age for rapid and accurate self-diagnosis as well as for the management of asthma, which is advantageous for low resource areas where asthma is prevalent. The objective of this research work was to prepare the miniature, nano...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Shende P,Vaidya J,Kulkarni YA

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide has an important role in the development of the structure and function of the airways and vessel walls. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FE(NO)) is inversely related to the markers and risk factors of atherosclerosis. We aimed to estimate the relative contribution of genes and shared and non-shared enviro...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Tarnoki DL,Tarnoki AD,Medda E,Littvay L,Lazar Z,Toccaceli V,Fagnani C,Stazi MA,Nisticó L,Brescianini S,Penna L,Lucatelli P,Boatta E,Zini C,Fanelli F,Baracchini C,Meneghetti G,Koller A,Osztovits J,Jermendy G,Preda

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and is considered one of the most aggressive human cancers, with a 5 year overall survival of 10-15%. Early diagnosis of lung cancer is ideal; however, it is still uncertain as to what technique will prove successful in the systematic screening of high...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Hayes SA,Haefliger S,Harris B,Pavlakis N,Clarke SJ,Molloy MP,Howell VM

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary infections are the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). Due to the polymicrobial nature of these infections, the identification of the particular bacterial species responsible is an essential step in diagnosis and treatment. Current diagnostic procedure...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Nizio KD,Perrault KA,Troobnikoff AN,Ueland M,Shoma S,Iredell JR,Middleton PG,Forbes SL

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung just like all other organs is affected by age. The lung matures by the age of 20 and age-related changes start around middle age, at 40-50 years. Exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) has been shown to be age, height and gender dependent. We hypothesize that the nitric oxide (NO) parameters alveolar NO (CANO), airway f...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Högman M,Thornadtsson A,Liv P,Hua-Huy T,Dinh-Xuan AT,Tufvesson E,Dressel H,Janson C,Koskela K,Oksa P,Sauni R,Uitti J,Moilanen E,Lehtimäki L

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The forehead was studied as a possible sampling site for capturing changes in volatile organic compound (VOC) profiles associated with psychological-stress. Skin-VOCs were sampled with a polydimethylsilicone (PDMS)-coupon and the resulting VOCs were recovered and analysed with two-stage thermal desorption gas chromato...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Martin HJ,Turner MA,Bandelow S,Edwards L,Riazanskaia S,Thomas CL

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic amines are interesting compounds which may be of use for medical diagnosis or therapeutic monitoring. The present paper deals with the problems that occur with concentration determination of dimethylamine (DMA) and trimethylamine (TMA). These occur in the breath of people suffering from renal disease. The mea...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Wzorek B,Mochalski P,Sliwka I,Amann A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled breath is coming to the forefront of non-invasive biomarker discovery efforts. Concentration of exhaled breath volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on thermal desorption (TD) tubes with subsequent analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has dominated this field. As discovery experimentation incre...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Harshman SW,Mani N,Geier BA,Kwak J,Shepard P,Fan M,Sudberry GL,Mayes RS,Ott DK,Martin JA,Grigsby CC

更新日期：2016-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The current diagnostic challenge with diagnosing hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is identifying those with minimal HE as opposed to the more clinically apparent covert/overt HE. Rifaximin, is an effective therapy but earlier identification and treatment of HE could prevent liver disease progression and hospitalization. Ou...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Arasaradnam RP,McFarlane M,Ling K,Wurie S,O'Connell N,Nwokolo CU,Bardhan KD,Skinner J,Savage RS,Covington JA

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The design, realization and testing of a CO(2)-triggered breath sampler, capable of a separate collection of dead space and end-tidal air on multiple breaths, is presented. This sampling procedure has advantages in terms of the sample volume, insights regarding the origin of compounds, increased reproducibility and hi...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Di Francesco F,Loccioni C,Fioravanti M,Russo A,Pioggia G,Ferro M,Roehrer I,Tabucchi S,Onor M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much clinical interest in the development of a low-cost and reliable test for diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), two very distinct diseases that can present with similar symptoms. The assessment of stool samples for the diagnosis of gastro-intestinal diseases is in...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Shepherd SF,McGuire ND,de Lacy Costello BP,Ewen RJ,Jayasena DH,Vaughan K,Ahmed I,Probert CS,Ratcliffe NM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) has been suggested to be a marker of small airway injury. We investigated the effects of different ventilation strategies on eNO. Sixty-nine patients who received elective open abdominal surgery under general anesthesia with more than 2 h of surgery duration were randomly divided into three ...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Cui Y,Pi X,Wang C,Liu S,Gong Y,Wang Y,Zhang F,Shi J,Lin Z,Zhang X,Li E

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been a number of studies in which metal oxide sensors (MOS) have replaced conventional analytical detectors in gas chromatography systems. However, despite the use of these instruments in a range of applications including breath research the sensor responses (i.e. resistance changes w.r.t. concentration of ...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Gould O,Wieczorek T,de Lacy Costello B,Persad R,Ratcliffe N

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is increasingly being used as a non-invasive method for disease diagnosis and environmental exposure assessment. We previously detected the nucleic acids of bacterial pathogens in EBC. Influenza viruses can be transmitted through aerosols during coughing and exhaling. Existing detection...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Li X,Wang M,Chen J,Lin F,Wang W

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of lung cancer (LC) is a priority since LC is characterized by symptoms mimicking other respiratory conditions, but it remains the leading cause of oncological disease death. Properly trained dogs can perceive the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) related to cancer thanks to their acute sense of smell....

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Mazzola SM,Pirrone F,Sedda G,Gasparri R,Romano R,Spaggiari L,Mariangela A

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma control does not yet meet the goals of asthma management guidelines. Non-invasive monitoring of airway inflammation may help to improve the level of asthma control in children. OBJECTIVES:(1) To identify a set of exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that is most predictive for an asthma exacerba...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： van Vliet D,Smolinska A,Jöbsis Q,Rosias P,Muris J,Dallinga J,Dompeling E,van Schooten FJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aircraft engine exhaust increases the number concentration of nanoparticles (NP) in the surrounding environment. Health concerns related to NP raise the question of the exposure and health monitoring of airport workers. No biological monitoring study on this profession has been reported to date. The aim was to evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of breath research

authors： Marie-Desvergne C,Dubosson M,Touri L,Zimmermann E,Gaude-Môme M,Leclerc L,Durand C,Klerlein M,Molinari N,Vachier I,Chanez P,Mossuz VC

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00