Volume 138, Issue 3, Pages 536-542 (September 2010) Adenosine Triphosphate Concentration of Exhaled Breath Condensate in Asthma Zsófia Lázár, MD, László Cervenak, PhD, Márta Orosz, MD, PhD, Gabriella Gálffy, MD, PhD, Zsolt I. Komlósi, MD, PhD, András Bikov, MD, György Losonczy, MD, DMSc, Ildikó Horváth, MD, DMSc CHEST Volume 138, Issue 3, Pages 536-542 (September 2010) DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-0085 Copyright © 2010 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 ATP concentration in EBC collected from patients with asthma and control subjects. Horizontal lines are at the geometric mean with 95% CI. ATP = adenosine triphosphate; EBC = exhaled breath condensate. CHEST 2010 138, 536-542DOI: (10.1378/chest.10-0085) Copyright © 2010 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Correlation between exhaled markers and disease parameters in asthma. Correlations of EBC ATP concentration and FeNO to ACT scores (A, C) and FEV1/FVC (B, D) are shown in patients with asthma. ACT = Asthma Control Test; FeNO = fractional exhaled nitric oxide. See Figure 1 legend for expansion of other abbreviations. CHEST 2010 138, 536-542DOI: (10.1378/chest.10-0085) Copyright © 2010 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Correction of EBC ATP concentration for respiratory droplet dilution. The relation between EBC ATP concentration and dilution of respiratory droplets in the condensate fluid of patients with asthma and healthy control subjects is presented (A). The correlation between dilution-corrected ATP concentrations and FEV1% predicted is shown (B). See Figure 1 legend for expansion of abbreviations. CHEST 2010 138, 536-542DOI: (10.1378/chest.10-0085) Copyright © 2010 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions