The human volatilome: volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath, skin emanations, urine, feces and saliva

A Amann, B de Lacy Costello, W Miekisch… - Journal of breath …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Breath analysis is a young field of research with its roots in antiquity. Antoine Lavoisier
discovered carbon dioxide in exhaled breath during the period 1777–1783, Wilhelm (Vilém) …

Assessment, origin, and implementation of breath volatile cancer markers

H Haick, YY Broza, P Mochalski, V Ruzsanyi… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A new non-invasive and potentially inexpensive frontier in the diagnosis of cancer relies on
the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath samples. Breath can …

Emission rates of volatile organic compounds from humans

N Wang, L Ernle, G Beko, P Wargocki… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Human-emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are mainly from breath and the skin. In
this study, we continuously measured VOCs in a stainless-steel environmentally controlled …

Smelling the disease: Diagnostic potential of breath analysis

A Sharma, R Kumar, P Varadwaj - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2023 - Springer
Breath analysis is a relatively recent field of research with much promise in scientific and
clinical studies. Breath contains endogenously produced volatile organic components …

Advances in electronic-nose technologies for the detection of volatile biomarker metabolites in the human breath

AD Wilson - Metabolites, 2015 - mdpi.com
Recent advancements in the use of electronic-nose (e-nose) devices to analyze human
breath profiles for the presence of specific volatile metabolites, known as biomarkers or …

Application of electronic-nose technologies and VOC-biomarkers for the noninvasive early diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases

AD Wilson - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Conventional methods utilized for clinical diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases have
employed invasive medical procedures that cause stress, anxiety and pain to patients …

Nanoscale sensor technologies for disease detection via volatolomics

R Vishinkin, H Haick - Small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The detection of many diseases is missed because of delayed diagnoses or the low efficacy
of some treatments. This emphasizes the urgent need for inexpensive and minimally …

PTR-MS and GC-MS as complementary techniques for analysis of volatiles: A tutorial review

T Majchrzak, W Wojnowski, M Lubinska-Szczygeł… - Analytica chimica …, 2018 - Elsevier
This tutorial review is a critical commentary on the combined use of two instrumental
analytical techniques, namely GC-MS and PTR-MS. The first mention of such an analytical …

Analysis of exhaled breath for disease detection

A Amann, W Miekisch, J Schubert… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Breath analysis is a young field of research with great clinical potential. As a result of this
interest, researchers have developed new analytical techniques that permit real-time …

Mass spectrometry for real-time quantitative breath analysis

D Smith, P Španěl, J Herbig… - Journal of breath …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Breath analysis research is being successfully pursued using a variety of analytical
methods, prominent amongst which are gas chromatography with mass spectrometry, GC …