Exhaled breath condensate nitrite - Methodological problems of sample collection

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Vogelberg, Christian ^a,d   Kahlert, Annegret ^a   Würfel, Christiane ^a   Marx, Katarina ^a   Böhm, Antje ^a   Range, Ursula ^b   Neumeister, Volker ^c   Leupold, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry   (Germany)

^c Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Exhaled breath condensat; Nitrite

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITRITE; WATER;

ADULT; AIR; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISINFECTION; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SAMPLE; STORAGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; CHILD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NITRITES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 50249189021     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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