Exhaled nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in respiratory diseases.

摘要: Breath tests have gained increasing interest in recent years mainly driven by the unmet clinical need to monitor airway diseases and obtain information on unravelled aspects of respiratory disorders. A prototype such measurement reaching significance besides its use as a research tool is exhaled nitric oxide (NO). It took hardly more than decade after discovery that breath contains NO for this be approved practice anti-inflammatory treatment asthma. Recent studies demonstrate using guide asthma may help decision making. similarly small molecule present carbon monoxide, which not only biomarker cigarette smoking but has also been suggested reflect ongoing oxidative stress/antioxidant defense. The scope review exciting field monoxides. Since several other biomarkers studied will provide brief introduction them.