Summary Background General studies of microarray gene-expression profiling have been undertaken to predict cancer outcome. Knowledge of this gene-expressio...
When a human being is placed for several days on a completely defined diet, consisting almost entirely of small molecules that are absorbed from the stomac...
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are frequently used in biomedical informatics research to evaluate classification and prediction models for ...
Although the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection pandemic has had a catastrophic impact on tuberculosis (TB) control efforts, especially in sub-Sa...
We studied the variation in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the breath of 50 normal humans, using gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy. An average...
In conclusion, the hydrocarbon breath test, being noninvasive, has great potential for the assessment of the role of lipid peroxidation in clinical conditi...
The straight chain aliphatic hydrocarbons ethane and pentane have been advocated as noninvasive markers of free-radical induced lipid peroxidation in human...
Pulmonary tuberculosis may alter volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in breath because Mycobacteria and oxidative stress resulting from Mycobacterial infecti...
Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) kills nearly 2 million people annually, yet rapid diagnosis still relies on a 100-year-old method of sputum staining for acid-...
Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) kills nearly 2 million people annually, yet rapid diagnosis still relies on a 100-year-old method of sputum staining for acid-...