analysis of exhaled breath condensate methodological issues

... Reproducibility of exhaled breath condensate pH in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Eur Respir J 2005, 25:269-274 Ojoo JC, Mulrennan SA, Kastelik JA, Morice AH, Redington AE: Exhaled breath condensate ... repeatability of exhaled breath condensate pH in asthma Respir Med 2008, 102:377-381 Kullmann T, Barta I, Lazar Z, Szili B, Barat E, Valyon M, Kollai M, Horvath I: Exhaled breath condensate pH ... collection of induced sputum (IS) and exhaled breath condensate (EBC) EBC is a technique first described by Russian researchers in the early Eighties [1,2] The use of EBC collection and analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... changes in pH of the exhaled breath condensate We conclude that these measurements not reflect the clinical response Additionally, omeprazole does not change the pH of exhaled breath condensate, ... after in exhaled treatment pH valuesomeprazolebreath condensate in patients before pH values in exhaled breath condensate in patients before and after omeprazole treatment There was no effect of omeprazole ... subject coughed times or more The concentration of capsaicin causing coughs or more (C5) was recorded Exhaled breath condensate collection Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) was obtained non-invasively...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... University of Virginia and all subjects provided informed consent Collection of exhaled breath condensate Individual EBC samples were collected without nose clips during minutes of relaxed breathing ... pharyngeal challenge by means of an zation) before and after and after a water control standardiRepeated exhaled breath condensate pH (after gas(Figure 1B) Repeated exhaled breath condensate pH (after ... Resolver Percentage of subjects 100% Positive EBC pH Profile Negative EBC pH Profile Figure Multi-sample EBC pH profiles of controls and patients Multi-sample EBC pH profiles of controls and patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... Measurement of exhaled breath condensate pH: implications for pathophysiology and monitoring of inflammatory airway diseases In New Perspectives in Monitoring Lung Inflammation Analysis of Exhaled Breath ... Redington AE, Reinhold P, van Rensen EL, Rubinstein I, Silkoff P, ATS/ERS Task Force on Exhaled Breath Condensate, et al.: Exhaled breath condensate: methodological recommendations and unresolved questions ... Multiplex analysis of cytokines in exhaled breath condensate Cytometry A 2006, 69:169-172 Groshaus HE, Manocha S, Walley KR, Russell JA: Mechanisms of beta-receptor stimulation-induced improvement of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Validation of leukotriene B4 measurements in exhaled breath condensate Inflamm Res 2003, 52:69-73 Mutlu GM, Garey KW, Robbins RA, Danziger LH, Rubinstein I: Collection and analysis of exhaled breath condensate ... concentration of the compounds were observed over a period of about weeks stored at -80°C General considerations In the literature, measurements of PGE2 and PGF2α are increased in exhaled breath condensate ... assessment such as metabonomics Application of such methods could be help to the breakthrough of assessments of pulmonary diseases using exhaled breath condensate as an easy gained sample matrix...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... responsiveness index; ENO = exhaled nitric oxide; FEV1= forced expiratory volume in second; FVC = forced vital capacity; EBC = exhaled breath condensate Lung function Exhaled breath condensate pH In both ... to direct bronchoconstrictor agents Increased concentrations of exhaled nitric oxide (ENO)[8,9] and acidification of exhaled breath condensate (EBC)[10,11] have been demonstrated in asthma In ... improve manifestations of sensitization to the entire allergen composition of A alternata The mechanism of action of SIT is not definitively established, but it might be consequence of treatment-induced...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... level of severity of the disease and markers of airway inflammation in asthma The aim of the study was to assess eotaxin-1 concentrations in the EBC of asthmatics with different degrees of asthma ... beneficial effect of inhaled corticosteroids treatment on downregulation of RANTES in the airways (using EBC) [29], analysis of the results of this study does not indicate the similar effect of ICS-treatment ... understanding of the effect of ICS on eotaxin in the asthmatic patients There are some limitations of the study One of them is small number of patients in the studied groups The number of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... technicians, who were not aware of the EBC pH measurements, in order to ensure consistency of results Exhaled Breath condensate collection and pH measurement Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) was collected ... Identification of acid reflux cough using serial assays of exhaled breath condensate pH Cough 2006, 2:3 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-12-67 Cite this article as: Papaioannou et al.: Exhaled breath condensate ... Drinking influences exhaled breath condensate acidity Lung 2008, 186(4):263-268 Antus B, Barta I, Kullmann T, Lazar Z, Valyon M, Horvath I, Csiszer E: Assessment of Exhaled Breath Condensate pH in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... biomarkers of oxidative stress: reproducibility and methodological issues Redox Rep 2004, 9(3):125-143 Multu GM, Garey KW, Robbins RA, Damiger LH, Rubinstein I: Collection and analysis of exhaled breath ... challenge [35] The aim of the present study was the assessment of the changes of ET-1 levels in EBC during the first 24 hours after postexercise bronchoconstriction Exhaled breath condensate, collecting ... assessment of the participation of this mediator not only in acute bronchoconstriction, but first of all in the increase of airway inflammation during postexercise bronchoconstriction Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... minor changes of bronchial blood flow may not affect exhaled breath temperature Elevated levels of exhaled NO in asthma [6,7] are likely to be due to the activation of the inducible form of NO synthase ... half an hour after the inhalation of salbutamol Exhaled breath temperature measurement During a flow and pressure controlled single breath exhalation exhaled breath temperature gradients were ... recording of exhaled breath temperature In a preliminary study exhaled breath temperature tracings were analyzed mathematically The tracings proved to have an exponential rise and the point at 63% of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... A variety of methods have been proposed and empirical studies for a wide spectrum of countries have been reported This thesis focuses on some methodological issues of decomposition analysis Literature ... approximately 5-year intervals, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the US Department of Commerce World War II accelerated the development of I-O analysis so that I-O tables were included in ... methodology 1.4 Structure of the Thesis This thesis focuses on the methodological issues of decomposition analysis, and uses relevant empirical studies to present the application of IDA and SDA methods...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:14

... four sources: (a) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the United States Department of Energy; (b) National Bureau of Statistic of China (NBS); (c) Office of Energy Efficiency ... Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE-BRS), Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) of Canada, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) of ... Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I TABLE OF CONTENTS III SUMMARY VI LIST OF TABLES VIII LIST OF FIGURES X LIST OF...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:13

... of a statutory licensing regime and use of clearing house mechanisms, and further consideration of the role of competition law xii PART 1: CONTEXTUALISING THE ISSUES CONTEXT CHAPTER 1: AIMS OF ... admixtures of known ingredients and where a claim includes the name of a person as the name, or part of the name, of the invention Exclusion of plants and animals for the purposes of an innovation ... respondents 68 Table 3: Numbers of patents held 78 Table 4: Types of patents held 79 Table 5: General views on the impact of patents on research 83 Views on the impact of types of patents on research...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:54

... not excluded from the meta -analysis Methodological quality assessment A methodological scoring system (Table 1) was used to give a relative assessment of the quality of the primarily selected ... is 57% of the maximum score of 16 The duration of follow-up, up to 28 or 30 days, was specified in all trials Other characteristics of the trials are shown in Tables and A second subset analysis ... below 10 This cutoff value for the methodological quality was determined from the peak incidence of quality scores Finally, the individual quality items of using the presence of mortality Study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES MU AORAN （B.Econ., University of Science and Technology of China） A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ... Structure of the Thesis This thesis focuses on some methodological issues of IDA and Figure 1-2 highlights the scope and structure of the thesis Chapter presents a literature survey of IDA Ang ... choice A comprehensive comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches is presented ix LIST OF TABLES Table 2-1 Number of studies by treatment of time and indicator type between...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:08

... traditional ways of analyzing software quality often ignores the impact of environmental factors, such as software maintenance and software security issues Realizing the importance of software availability ... to nowadays when the quality of a software system is of main concern The quality of a software system is vital to the success of a software system Software quality analysis is a very active research ... availability issues of fault-tolerant software systems (Chapter 4), followed by a quality analysis of distributed software system considering malicious software attack (Chapter 5) The primal focus of this...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... 5.5 Changes of maximum expected value of after-tax profit with respect to four scenarios of standard deviation .107 Figure 5.6 Changes of maximum expected value of after-tax profit with respect ... Impact of currency exchange rate of Country on the after-tax profit 131 Figure 6.3 Impact of currency exchange rate of Country on the market price of product 131 Figure 6.4 Impact of ... 78 5.3.1 Expected value of after-tax profit for a plant .83 5.3.2 Expected value of after-tax profit for a DC 84 5.3.3 Probability density function of inventory for final products...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... “Business of Insurance”: “Business of insurance” encompasses all activities necessary or incidental to the writing of insurance or the reinsuring of risks The “business of insurance” for purposes of ... example of a non-agent or broker being declared in violation of 18 U.S.C §1033(e) for engaging in the business of insurance because of the type of activities in which he was engaged and the nature of ... accompanying definition of “insurer”: “Any entity the business activity of which is the writing of insurance or the reinsuring of risks, and includes any 13 person who acts as, or is, an officer, director,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2017, 09:07

... installation of RM2000 and GP2000 Please always uninstall old program versions before installing a new program release! 1.2 Unit dependency of Import/Export of RM2000 Export and Import of RM2000 ... upgraded or the validity of a time limited version has expired New RM2000/GP2000 users as well as existing RM7 users must get a licence file from Tdv or one of the support offices in order to run ... calculation is numerically extended to cover more exactly “creep of creep” effects ( it is possible to decrease number of time steps ) Extensions of British Standard live load calculation Added possibility...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:18

... Ownership of the program and the documentation remain with TDV Austria Use of the program and the documentation is restricted to the licensed users Unlicensed use of the program or reproduction of the ... point’ arrow at the top of the screen and the insert symbol Accept the default name Define the Connection Points Click on the intersection point of the CL’s at the bottom of each beam in the position ... load sets and the two loading cases (e.g.: L.C is a UDL of 10kN/m from Elem to Elem 20 and L.C is a Settlement of 0.001m at the beginning of element 1200.) Choose AddCon and insert the ‘Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:55