Increase of acetone and ammonia in urine headspace and breath during ovulation quantified using selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 191-199

  Diskin, Ann M ^a   Španěl, Patrik ^b   Smith, David ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acetone; Ammonia; Menstrual cycle; Ovulation; SIFT MS; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BODY FLUIDS; CURRICULA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES;

BASELINE VALUES; DAILY VARIATIONS; FOOD INTAKE; HEADSPACES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; SELECTED ION FLOW TUBE MASS SPECTROMETRY; SELECTED ION FLOW TUBES; URINE ANALYSIS; URINE SAMPLE;

AMMONIA;

ACETONE; AMMONIA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLITE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTED ION FLOW TUBE MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 0037296123     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/24/1/314     Document Type: Article

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