Human health and performance monitoring (HHPM) is imperative to provide information
necessary for protecting, sustaining, evaluating, and improving personnel in various …

The analysis of volatile compounds is an efficient method to appraise information about the
chemical composition of liquids and solids. This principle is applied to several practical …

The methodology for EPOS2012 has been the same as for the other two productions.
Leaders in the field were invited to critically appraise the literature and write a report on a …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a leading cause of death and disability, but has
only recently been extensively explored from a cellular and molecular perspective. There is …

Collection of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is a noninvasive method for obtaining
samples from the lungs. EBC contains large number of mediators including adenosine …

Allergic inflammation is due to a complex interplay between several inflammatory cells,
including mast cells, basophils, lymphocytes, dendritic cells, eosinophils, and sometimes …

Over the last few years, breath analysis for the routine monitoring of metabolic disorders has
attracted a considerable amount of scientific interest, especially since breath sampling is a …

The American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society jointly created a Task Force
on “Outcomes for COPD pharmacological trials: from lung function to biomarkers” to inform …

The importance of developing new diagnostic and detection technologies for the growing
number of clinical challenges is rising each year. Here, we present a concise, yet didactic …

Background Owing to the success of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), there has been
increasing recognition of the importance of pulmonary vascular complications of hepatic …