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Volatile Biomarkers for Human Health : From Nature to Artificial Senses / edited by Hossam Haick.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hossam Haick
Contributor:
Haick, Hossam, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Biochemical markers.
Volatile organic compounds.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (526 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
London, England : The Royal Society of Chemistry, [2023]
Summary:
This book offers an outlook into the challenges in the continuing development of volatile biomarkers and their wider availability to healthcare research and industries.
Contents:
Intro
Title
Copyright
Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals: Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers
Chapter 1 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers in Breath: End-tidal Perspective
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Endogenous versus Exogenous Origins of VOCs and the Breath Volatilome
1.3 Volatiles and Breath Tests in Clinical Practice: Use of Substrates
1.4 Limonene and Liver Disease: Ingestion, Metabolism and Breath Analysis
1.5 Endogenous VOCs as Biomarkers
1.5.1 Isoprene
1.5.2 Acetone
1.6 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 2 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers in Breath: Basics and Dynamic Aspects
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Origin and Emission of Breath Biomarkers
2.2.1 Origin of Volatile Biomarkers
2.2.2 Emission of Breath Biomarkers
2.3 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 3 Blood VOC Biomarkers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Blood VOCs Profiles
3.3 VOC Circulation in the Human Organism
3.3.1 Tissue:Blood Barrier
3.3.2 Gut:Blood Barrier
3.3.3 VOCs' Biotransformation
3.3.4 Blood:Breath Barrier
3.3.5 Blood:Urine Barrier
3.4 Interplay Between VOC Signatures in Blood, Breath and Other Tissues
3.5 Analytical Approaches Toward Detection and Quantification of Blood VOCs
3.6 Applications of Blood VOCs
3.6.1 Evaluation of Exposure to VOCs
3.6.2 Disease Markers
3.7 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
A.1 Case λb:air &lt
10
A.2 Case λb:air100, D = 0
Chapter 4 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers from Feces
4.1 Why Do We Need Fecal Biomarkers?
4.2 How Are Fecal VOCs Identified?
4.3 Where Do VOCs Come From?
4.4 Fecal VOCs in Healthy Donors
4.5 VOCs in Colorectal Cancer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
4.5.1 VOC Profile in Colorectal Cancer
4.5.2 VOC Profile in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
4.5.3 VOC Profile in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
4.6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 5 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers from Urine
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Urine: A Medical Treasure in Disguise of Human Excretory Waste
5.1.2 Methodological and Technological Advancements Towards Identification of Urinary VOCs
5.1.3 Urine VOCs for Disease Diagnosis
5.2 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 6 Saliva and Related Specimens as a Source of Volatile Biomarkers
6.1 Saliva and Sputum as Matrices for Health Diagnosis
6.2 Production and Functions of Saliva
6.3 Contribution of Salivary Bacteria to Volatile Profiles
6.4 Diseases Related to Specific Biomarkers and Correlation with Volatiles in Saliva
6.5 Saliva VOCs as a Diagnostic Measure
6.5.1 Collection and Storage of Salivary Volatiles
6.5.2 Sample Preparation and Preconcentration of Salivary VOCs
6.5.3 Analytical Platforms for Detection of Salivary VOCs
6.5.4 Statistical and Chemometric Approaches
6.6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers in Skin
7.1 Overview
7.2 Skin Structure and Related VOC Sources
7.3 Sampling Methods for Skin Analysis
7.4 Disease- and Disorder-related Skin VOCs
7.4.1 Neurodegenerative Diseases/Disorders
7.4.2 Infectious Diseases
7.4.3 Cancerous Diseases
7.4.4 Skin Wounds
7.4.5 Other Health Conditions
7.5 Skin VOC Detection as a Field Approach
7.6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 8 Origin and Emission of Volatile Biomarkers from Genital Fluid
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 Communicable Gynecological Diseases
8.1.2 Noncommunicable Gynecological Diseases
8.2 Looking for Biomarkers
8.2.1 VOCs in the Female Genital Tract as a Window for Possible Cancer Biomarkers
8.3 Hypotheses on the Origin of Gynecological Cancer VOCs.
8.4 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Part 2: Communication: Volatile Biomarkers as a Signaling Agents
Chapter 9 Signal Transfer and Transduction between Cells
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Potential Role of VOCs in Signal Transduction
9.3 Cell-Cell VOC Signaling in Cancer
9.4 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 10 Volatile Organic Compounds as Mediators of Immunological Signaling
10.1 Introduction
10.2 VOCs and Their Association with Inflammation
10.3 VOCs as Potential Mediators Regulating the Transcriptional Map of Human Monocytes
10.4 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 11 Volatile Signatures of the Microbiome
11.1 Introduction
11.1.1 What Does a Microbiome Consist Of?
11.1.2 Gut Microbiome-Host Interactions
11.1.3 Gut Microbiota Effects on the Host's Immune System
11.2 VOC-mediated Communication in Plant Microbiome
11.3 Human Microbiome VOCs
11.3.1 Gut Microbiome VOCs
11.3.2 Skin Microbiome VOCs
11.3.3 Breath Microbiome VOCs
11.3.4 Sampling Human Microbiome VOCs
11.4 Concluding Remarks
Part 3: Engineering Volatilomics
Chapter 12 Interplay Between Volatile Biomarkers and Body Fluids
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Ideal Gas Law, Diffusion, and Henry's Law
12.2.1 The Ideal Gas
12.2.2 Diffusion
12.3 An Introduction to Compartmental Mass Transport
12.4 Derivation of a Simple Two-compartment Model for Breath Concentrations
12.5 Isoprene-D5
12.6 Acetone-D6
12.7 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 13 Hybrid Volatilomics in Healthcare
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Potential and Typical Examples of Hybrid Volatilome
13.2.1 Lung Cancer
13.2.2 Tuberculosis
13.2.3 Digestive System Diseases
13.2.4 Urinary System Diseases
13.3 Utilization of Hybrid Volatilomics.
13.4 Steps Towards Realization of Hybrid Volatilomics in Point-of-care (PoC) Settings
13.5 Concluding Remarks
Abbreviations
Chapter 14 Engineering Volatile Biomarkers for Disease Detection
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Stable Isotope Selective Sensing
14.2.1 Helicobacter pylori: Urea Breath Test
14.2.2 Liver-related Conditions
14.2.3 Other Gastric Conditions
14.2.4 Malignant Disease Probing
14.3 Exogenous VOCs as Sensing Targets
14.4 Engineering Probes as Volatile Biomarkers
14.5 Concluding Remarks
Part 4: Translation: Use of Volatile Biomarkers for Human Health
Chapter 15 Sampling: The First and Most Important Step
15.1 Introduction
15.1.1 Transfer Function
15.1.2 Henry's Law and pH
15.1.3 Diffusion
15.1.4 Adsorption
15.1.5 Surface-mediated Transformations
15.1.6 Adsorption Sampling
15.2 Sampling Preparation and Task Lists
15.2.1 Breath
15.2.2 Saliva
15.2.3 Skin and Sweat
Chapter 16 Analytical Approaches for Disease Detection
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Compound Preseparation
16.2.1 Gas Chromatography
16.2.2 Multidimensional Gas Chromatography
16.2.3 Multicapillary Column Chromatography
16.3 Compound Detection
16.3.1 Ionization
16.3.2 Ion Mobility
16.3.3 Mass Spectrometry
16.3.4 Detection
16.3.5 Spectroscopy
16.4 Volatile Biomarkers Analysis
16.4.1 Analysis of Volatile Biomarkers by Gas Chromatography
16.4.2 Detection of Volatile Biomarkers Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry
16.4.3 Detection of Volatile Biomarkers Using Real-time Mass Spectrometry
16.4.4 Analysis of Volatile Biomarkers by Optical Spectroscopy
16.5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 17 Monitoring Drug Pharmacokinetics1
17.1 Monitoring Drug Pharmacokinetics.
17.1.1 Understanding Pharmacokinetics with the Help of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Human Body
17.1.2 Pharmakokinetic/Pharmakodynamic Modeling
17.1.3 Advantages of TDM via breath
17.1.4 Analytic and Sensing Tools - From Research to Practice
17.1.5 Sampling
17.1.6 Preconcentration
17.1.7 Mass Spectrometric Methods
17.1.8 Online Example: Valproic Acid
17.1.9 Offline Example: Illicit Drugs
17.1.10 Optical Spectroscopic Methods
17.1.11 Chemical Sensors
17.2 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 18 Selective Sensors for Volatile Biomarkers
18.1 Chemical Sensors for the Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
18.2 Selective Metal Oxide Chemiresistors for VOC Detection
18.3 Crystallochemical Approach to Selective Chemosensing
18.3.1 Sensing Behavior of TiO2
18.3.2 Sensing Behavior of WO3
18.4 Selective Gas Sensing and Polymorphic Control Using Temperature Variations
18.5 Selective Gas Sensing Based on a Specific Polymorph Independent of Processing
18.6 Employing Machine Learning to Achieve Gas Selectivity
18.7 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 19 Cross-reactive Sensors (or e-Noses)
19.1 Introduction
19.2 e-Nose Technology
19.2.1 e-Nose Concepts
19.2.2 Advances in Sensing Technology
19.2.3 Sampling VOCs
19.2.4 e-Nose Applications for Clinical Screening and Diagnostics
19.3 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 20 Nanomaterial-based Sensors for Volatile Biomarkers
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Nanomaterial-based VOC Sensors for Diagnosis
20.2.1 Selective Nanoscale Sensors
20.3 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 21 Wearable Sensors for Detection of Human Health Using Volatile Biomarkers
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Wearable Sensors for Detecting Breath Volatile Biomarkers.
21.2.1 Wearable Sensors Based on Inorganic Materials.
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