Real-Time Monitoring of Tricarboxylic Acid Metabolites in Exhaled BreathClick to copy article linkArticle link copied!
- Alberto Tejero RioserasAlberto Tejero RioserasDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandSEADM, S.L., 28036 Madrid, SpainDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, University of Cordoba, 14005 Cordoba, SpainMore byAlberto Tejero Rioseras
- Kapil Dev SinghKapil Dev SinghUniversity Children’s Hospital Basel, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, SwitzerlandDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, 4123 Allschwil, SwitzerlandMore byKapil Dev Singh
- Nora NowakNora NowakDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandMore byNora Nowak
- Martin T. GauggMartin T. GauggDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandMore byMartin T. Gaugg
- Tobias BrudererTobias BrudererDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandMore byTobias Bruderer
- Renato ZenobiRenato ZenobiDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandMore byRenato Zenobi
- Pablo M.-L. Sinues*Pablo M.-L. Sinues*E-mail:[email protected]Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, SwitzerlandUniversity Children’s Hospital Basel, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, SwitzerlandDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, 4123 Allschwil, SwitzerlandMore byPablo M.-L. Sinues
Analytical Chemistry
Abstract

The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is one of the most important metabolic pathway for cellular respiration in aerobic organisms. It provides and collects intermediates for many other interconnecting pathways and acts as a hub connecting metabolism of carbohydrates, fatty acids, and amino acids. Alteration in intracellular levels of its intermediates has been linked with a wide range of illnesses ranging from cancer to cellular necrosis or liver cirrhosis. Therefore, there exists an intrinsic interest in monitoring such metabolites. Our goal in this study was to evaluate whether, at least the most volatile metabolites of the TCA cycle, could be detected in breathin vivo and in real time. We used secondary electrospray ionization coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) to conduct this targeted analysis. We enrolled six healthy individuals who provided full exhalations into the SESI-HRMS system at different times during 3 days. For the first time, we observed exhaled compounds that appertain to the TCA cycle: fumaric, succinic, malic, keto-glutaric, oxaloacetic, and aconitic acids. We found high intraindividual variability and a significant overall difference between morning and afternoon levels for malic acid, oxaloacetic acid, and aconitic acid, supporting previous studies suggesting circadian fluctuations of these metabolites in humans. This study provides first evidence that TCA cycle could conveniently be monitored in breath, opening new opportunities to studyin vivo this important metabolic pathway.
Subjects
Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article.
Read thisarticle
To access this article, please review the available access options below.
Get instant access
Purchase Access
Read this article for 48 hours. Check out below using your ACS ID or as a guest.
Recommended
Access through Your Institution
You may have access to this article through your institution.
Your institution does not have access to this content.Add or change your institution or let them know you’d like them to include access.
Recommended
Log in to Access
You may have access to this article with your ACS ID if you have previously purchased it or have ACS member benefits. Log in below.
- Purchase access
Purchase this article for 48 hours$48.00 Add to cart Purchase this article for 48 hours Checkout
Supporting Information
The Supporting Information is available free of charge on theACS Publications website at DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04600.
Figure S1, schematic description of the experimental setup; Figure S2, total ion current (TIC) as a function of time during the exhalation maneuvers; Figure S3, signal intensities vs time during two consecutives exhalations from the same subject; Figure S4, SESI-MS/MS fragmentation spectra of citric acid standard and breath; Figure S5, TCA cycle metabolites fumaric acid, succinic acid, and alpha-ketoglutaric acid showed no significant time-of-day dependence in exhaled breath abundance; Table S1, lock masses employed in negative ion mode to ensure high mass accuracy during the experiments; Table S2, list of chemicals used for running MS/MS experiments and collision energies used to compare the fragmentation pattern of the standards and the exhaled breath; Table S3, estimation of gas-phase concentrations in breath for healthy humans; Table S4, retention times and fragmentation spectra data fromFigure3 for EBC; Table S5, mean values, mean differences, corresponding 95% confidence interval, andp-value resulting from running an unpairedt test to compare morning vs afternoon levels of the TCA cycle metabolites identified in exhaled breath (PDF)
Terms & Conditions
Most electronic Supporting Information files are available without a subscription to ACS Web Editions. Such files may be downloaded by article for research use (if there is a public use license linked to the relevant article, that license may permit other uses). Permission may be obtained from ACS for other uses through requests via the RightsLink permission system:http://pubs.acs.org/page/copyright/permissions.html.
Cited By
This article is cited by 53 publications.
- Zhifeng Tang, Jianming Yang, Xin Xu, Keda Zhang, Huiling Wang, Xin Luo, Mingliang Fang, Tao Huan,Xue Li.Breath and Blood Metabolomics: A Comparative Study Using SESI-HRMS/MS and UHPLC-ESI-HRMS/MS.Environment & Health2025,3 (6) , 596-604.https://doi.org/10.1021/envhealth.4c00248
- Wenzhao Zhou, Wenting Wang, Mengmeng Jiang, Lanrui Cao, Shichun Shao, Yanna Le,Xudong Fu.Ultrahigh Flow Regulated Discharge Coupling with Targeted Mass Spectrometry Analysis: Real Time Capturing Biomolecules in Exhaled Breath.Analytical Chemistry2025,97 (18) , 9827-9835.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c00195
- Qisong Xing, Lu Zhang, Huaying Liu, Chenyu Zhu,Maosheng Yao.Exhaled VOC Biomarkers from Rats Injected with PMs from Thirty-One Major Cities in China.Environmental Science & Technology2023,57 (49) , 20510-20520.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c06074
- Mo Awchi, Pablo Sinues, Alexandre N. Datta, Diego García-Gómez,Kapil Dev Singh.UHPLC-MS/MS-Based Identity Confirmation of Amino Acids Involved in Response to and Side Effects from Antiseizure Medications.Journal of Proteome Research2023,22 (3) , 990-995.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00835
- Tanja Zivkovic Semren, Shoaib Majeed, Maria Fatarova, Csaba Laszlo, Claudius Pak, Sandro Steiner, Guillermo Vidal-de-Miguel, Arkadiusz Kuczaj, Anatoly Mazurov, Manuel C. Peitsch, Nikolai V. Ivanov, Julia Hoeng,Philippe A. Guy.Application of Secondary Electrospray Ionization Coupled with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry in Chemical Characterization of Thermally Generated Aerosols.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2022,33 (11) , 2147-2155.https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.2c00222
- Hanne Dalsvåg, Janna Cropotova, Anet Režek Jambrak, Tibor Janči, Patrik Španěl, Kseniya Dryahina, David Smith,Turid Rustad.Mass Spectrometric Quantification of Volatile Compounds Released by Fresh Atlantic Salmon Stored at 4 °C under Modified Atmosphere Packaging and Vacuum Packaging for up to 16 Days.ACS Food Science & Technology2022,2 (3) , 400-414.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.1c00259
- Tobias Bruderer, Martin T. Gaugg, Luca Cappellin, Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Manuel Hutterli, Nathan Perkins, Renato Zenobi,Alexander Moeller.Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds with Secondary Electrospray Ionization and Proton Transfer Reaction High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry: A Feature Comparison.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2020,31 (8) , 1632-1640.https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.0c00059
- Xiaoling Zang, María Eugenia Monge, David A. Gaul, Nael A. McCarty, Arlene Stecenko,Facundo M. Fernández.Early Detection of Cystic Fibrosis Acute Pulmonary Exacerbations by Exhaled Breath Condensate Metabolomics.Journal of Proteome Research2020,19 (1) , 144-152.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00443
- Tobias Bruderer, Thomas Gaisl, Martin T. Gaugg, Nora Nowak, Bettina Streckenbach, Simona Müller, Alexander Moeller, Malcolm Kohler,Renato Zenobi.On-Line Analysis of Exhaled Breath.Chemical Reviews2019,119 (19) , 10803-10828.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00005
- Yihan Zhang, Wuduo Zhao, Dingzhong Wang, Hongtu Zhang, Guobi Chai, Qidong Zhang, Binbin Lu, Shihao Sun,Jianxun Zhang.Direct Analysis of Carbonyl Compounds by Mass Spectrometry with Double-Region Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization.Analytical Chemistry2019,91 (9) , 5715-5721.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05834
- Shi Jieying,Guo Shuangfeng,Li Tingting,Yan Zhicheng,Wang Lei,Wu Caie,Zhou Dandan,Fan Gongjian,Li Xiaojing.The molecular mechanism of chitosan-based OEO nanoemulsion edible film in controlling Alternaria alternata and in application for apricot preservation.Food Control2025,176, 111354.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2025.111354
- Xiangyao Wu,Jun Cai,Jing Yang,Yuanzhe Ma,Ming Li,Fuyong Wu.Effects of in-situ straw return on PAHs removal and bioavailability depend on their levels in contaminated soil.Journal of Cleaner Production2025,519, 145987.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145987
- Stamatios Giannoukos,Kathryn Jane Burton-Pimentel,Roxane Guillod,Guy Vergères,Daniel Pohl.Exploring exhaled breath biomarkers for lactose intolerance diagnosis: the Lactobreath pilot study protocol.BMJ Open2025,15 (8) , e107256.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-107256
- Xin Luo,Huiling Wang,Xiaolan Hu,Sasho Gligorovski,Xue Li,Pablo Sinues.Practical Applications of Secondary/Extractive Electrospray Ionization (SESI): A Versatile Tool for Real‐Time Chemical Analysis.Mass Spectrometry Reviews2025,66https://doi.org/10.1002/mas.21938
- Guoyuan Liao,Bo Yang,Lei Li,Xiaolan Hu,Christian George,Abdelwahid Mellouki,Anthony Wexler,Pablo Sinues,Xue Li.The Evolution of Secondary/Extractive Electrospray Ionization: From Ionization Mechanism to Instrumental Advances.Mass Spectrometry Reviews2025,35https://doi.org/10.1002/mas.21931
- Petra Zimmermann,Salome Kurth,Stamatios Giannoukos,Martin Stocker,Nicholas A Bokulich.NapBiome trial: Targeting gut microbiota to improve sleep rhythm and developmental and behavioural outcomes in early childhood in a birth cohort in Switzerland – a study protocol.BMJ Open2025,15 (3) , e092938.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092938
- Jinyan Li,Lanting Lin,Hongbiao Zhuo,Yuan Zhang,Jianyong Liu,Xiaoxun Zhou,GuangBo Wu,Chaoan Guo.Integrated physiological, metabolome, and transcriptome analysis of the hepatopancreas in Penaeus vannamei under ammonia stress.Aquaculture International2024,32 (7) , 8939-8962.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-024-01599-w
- Fan-Lun Meng,Chamarthi Maheswar Raju,Pawel L. Urban.Fizzy extraction secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for analysis of volatile solutes in high-matrix samples.Microchemical Journal2024,207, 112059.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2024.112059
- Tian Gao,Qiong Wang,Huarui Sun,Yang Liu,Jitao Li,Yuying He.Physiological Adaptation of Fenneropenaeus chinensis in Response to Saline–Alkaline Stress Revealed by a Combined Proteomics and Metabolomics Method.Biology2024,13 (7) , 488.https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13070488
- Yang Song,Shi Yao,Xiaona Li,Tao Wang,Xin Jiang,Nanthi Bolan,Charles R. Warren,Trent R. Northen,Scott X. Chang.Soil metabolomics: Deciphering underground metabolic webs in terrestrial ecosystems.Eco-Environment & Health2024,3 (2) , 227-237.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eehl.2024.03.001
- Cedric Wüthrich,Renato Zenobi,Stamatios Giannoukos.Alternative electrolyte solutions for untargeted breath metabolomics using secondary‐electrospray ionization high‐resolution mass spectrometry.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2024,38 (8)https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9714
- Cedric Wüthrich,Stamatios Giannoukos.Advances in secondary electrospray ionization for breath analysis and volatilomics.International Journal of Mass Spectrometry2024,498, 117213.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2024.117213
- Maroua Omezzine Gnioua,Anatolii Spesyvyi,Patrik Španěl.Gas phase H + , H 3 O + and NH 4 + affinities of oxygen-bearing volatile organic compounds; DFT calculations for soft chemical ionisation mass spectrometry.Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics2023,25 (44) , 30343-30348.https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP03604A
- M.Z. Islam,S. Giannoukos,S.E. Räisänen,K. Wang,X. Ma,F. Wahl,R. Zenobi,M. Niu.Exhaled volatile fatty acids, ruminal methane emission, and their diurnal patterns in lactating dairy cows.Journal of Dairy Science2023,106 (10) , 6849-6859.https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-23301
- Milena Aleksić,Andrea Simeon,Djordje Vujić,Stamatios Giannoukos,Boris Brkić.Food and lifestyle impact on breath VOCs using portable mass spectrometer—pilot study across European countries.Journal of Breath Research2023,17 (4) , 046004.https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7163/ace8b1
- Mingtao Liu,Zhangkai J. Cheng,Mingshan Xue,Runpei Lin,Teng Zhang,Baoqing Sun.The application of metabolomics toward idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and potential metabolomic value of diverse samples in interstitial lung diseases.Precision Medical Sciences2023,12 (3) , 134-143.https://doi.org/10.1002/prm2.12106
- Jiayi Lan,Giorgia Greter,Bettina Streckenbach,Benedikt Wanner,Markus Arnoldini,Renato Zenobi,Emma Slack.Non-invasive monitoring of microbiota and host metabolism using secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry.Cell Reports Methods2023,3 (8) , 100539.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100539
- Meiju Geng,Xinhui Wang,Xiaoying Liu,Pei Lv.Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Microbial Community Diversity and Soil Metabolism in Desert Grasslands.Sustainability2023,15 (14) , 11263.https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411263
- Francisco G. Blanco,Guillermo Vidal-de-Miguel.Breath Analysis by Secondary Electro-Spray Ionization - Mass Spectrometry to Interrogate Biologically Significant Metabolites Non-Invasively.Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry2023,53 (4) , 825-837.https://doi.org/10.1080/10408347.2021.1981226
- Xin Geng,Kai Zhang,Hongli Li,David Da Yong Chen.Online mass spectrometry of exhaled breath with a modified ambient ion source.Talanta2023,255, 124254.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124254
- Ronja Weber,Jérôme Kaeslin,Sophia Moeller,Nathan Perkins,Srdjan Micic,Alexander Moeller.Effects of a Volatile Organic Compound Filter on Breath Profiles Measured by Secondary Electrospray High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.Molecules2023,28 (1) , 45.https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28010045
- Liping Xu,Kai Zhang,Xin Geng,Hongli Li,David Da Yong Chen.High‐resolution mass spectrometry exhalome profiling with a modified direct analysis in real time ion source.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2022,36 (24)https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9406
- Amanda Gisler,Kapil Dev Singh,Jiafa Zeng,Martin Osswald,Mo Awchi,Fabienne Decrue,Felix Schmidt,Noriane A. Sievi,Xing Chen,Jakob Usemann,Urs Frey,Malcolm Kohler,Xue Li,Pablo Sinues.An interoperability framework for multicentric breath metabolomic studies.iScience2022,25 (12) , 105557.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105557
- Cedric Wüthrich,Miguel de Figueiredo,Kathryn Jane Burton-Pimentel,Guy Vergères,Fabian Wahl,Renato Zenobi,Stamatios Giannoukos.Breath response following a nutritional challenge monitored by secondary electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry.Journal of Breath Research2022,16 (4) , 046007.https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7163/ac894e
- Xianyun Ren,Shaoting Jia,Baoquan Gao,Qiansen Zhou,Yao Xu,Ping Liu,Jian Li.Application of proteomics and metabolomics to assess ammonia stress response and tolerance mechanisms of juvenile ornate rock lobster Panulirus ornatus.Science of The Total Environment2022,837, 155751.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155751
- Theo Issitt,Laura Wiggins,Martin Veysey,Sean T Sweeney,William J Brackenbury,Kelly Redeker.Volatile compounds in human breath: critical review and meta-analysis.Journal of Breath Research2022,16 (2) , 024001.https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7163/ac5230
- Amanda Gisler,Kapil Dev Singh,Jiafa Zeng,Martin Osswald,Mo Awchi,Fabienne Decrue,Felix Schmidt,Noriane Sievi,Xing Chen,Jakob Usemann,Urs Frey,Malcolm Kohler,Xue Li,Pablo Sinues.An Interoperability Framework for Multicentric Breath Metabolomic Studies.SSRN Electronic Journal2022,491https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4076338
- Tanja Zivkovic Semren,Shoaib Majeed,Maria Fatarova,Csaba Laszlo,Claudius Pak,Sandro Steiner,Guillermo Vidal,Arkadiusz Kuczaj,Anatoly Mazurov,Joanne Chua,Manuel C. Peitsch,Nikolai V. Ivanov,Julia Hoeng,Philippe A. Guy.Real-Time Chemical Characterization of Aerosols by Secondary Electrospray Ionization Coupled with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.SSRN Electronic Journal2022,260https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4125879
- Martin Osswald,Dario Kohlbrenner,Nora Nowak,Jörg Spörri,Pablo Sinues,David Nieman,Noriane Andrina Sievi,Johannes Scherr,Malcolm Kohler.Real-Time Monitoring of Metabolism during Exercise by Exhaled Breath.Metabolites2021,11 (12) , 856.https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11120856
- Kseniya Dryahina,Miroslav Polášek,David Smith,Patrik Španěl.Sensitivity of secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry to a range of volatile organic compounds: Ligand switching ion chemistry and the influence of Zspray™ guiding electric fields.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2021,35 (22)https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9187
- Nora Nowak,Thomas Gaisl,Djordje Miladinovic,Ricards Marcinkevics,Martin Osswald,Stefan Bauer,Joachim Buhmann,Renato Zenobi,Pablo Sinues,Steven A. Brown,Malcolm Kohler.Rapid and reversible control of human metabolism by individual sleep states.Cell Reports2021,37 (4) , 109903.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109903
- Natalia Drabińska,Cheryl Flynn,Norman Ratcliffe,Ilaria Belluomo,Antonis Myridakis,Oliver Gould,Matteo Fois,Amy Smart,Terry Devine,Ben De Lacy Costello.A literature survey of all volatiles from healthy human breath and bodily fluids: the human volatilome.Journal of Breath Research2021,15 (3) , 034001.https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7163/abf1d0
- Kseniya Dryahina,Suman Som,David Smith,Patrik Španěl.Reagent and analyte ion hydrates in secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (SESI‐MS), their equilibrium distributions and dehydration in an ion transfer capillary: Modelling and experiments.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2021,35 (7)https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9047
- Yi Hong,Xinxin Che,Haibo Su,Zebin Mai,Zhengxu Huang,Weibin Huang,Wei Chen,Shulin Liu,Wei Gao,Zhen Zhou,Guobin Tan,Xue Li.Exhaled breath analysis using on‐line preconcentration mass spectrometry for gastric cancer diagnosis.Journal of Mass Spectrometry2021,56 (4)https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.4588
- Na Li,Junming Zhou,Congying He,Yuanyuan Fu,Chunlin Wang,Lei Liu,Kuanhong Meng,Yanrong Li,Zhujun Zhu,Lili Huang,Daifu Hu.GC‐MS‐based metabolomics reveal that light intensity during indoor overwintering affects the metabolism of Scylla paramamosain.Aquaculture Research2021,52 (3) , 1013-1025.https://doi.org/10.1111/are.14956
- Jisun H. J. Lee,Jiangjiang Zhu.Optimizing Secondary Electrospray Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) for the Analysis of Volatile Fatty Acids from Gut Microbiome.Metabolites2020,10 (9) , 351.https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo10090351
- Yuanyuan Xie,Qingyun Li,Lei Hua,Ping Chen,Fan Hu,Ningbo Wan,Haiyang Li.Highly selective and sensitive online measurement of trace exhaled HCN by acetone-assisted negative photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry with in-source CID.Analytica Chimica Acta2020,1111, 31-39.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2020.03.035
- Regina Brůhová Michalčíková,Kseniya Dryahina,David Smith,Patrik Španěl.Volatile compounds released by Nalophan; implications for selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry and other chemical ionisation mass spectrometry analytical methods.Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2020,34 (5)https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8602
- Qian Zhang,Lin Lin,Quan Yu,Xiaohao Wang.Exploiting the native inspiratory ability of a mass spectrometer to improve analysis efficiency.RSC Advances2020,10 (7) , 4103-4109.https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RA09104A
- Jiayi Lan,Francisco Blanco Parte,Guillermo Vidal-de-Miguel,Renato Zenobi.Secondary electrospray ionization.2020, 185-199.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819967-1.00012-8
- Xiaona Li,Changsheng Qu,Yongrong Bian,Chenggang Gu,Xin Jiang,Yang Song.New insights into the responses of soil microorganisms to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon stress by combining enzyme activity and sequencing analysis with metabolomics.Environmental Pollution2019,255, 113312.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113312
- Kapil Dev Singh,Georgi Tancev,Fabienne Decrue,Jakob Usemann,Rhea Appenzeller,Pedro Barreiro,Gabriel Jaumà,Miriam Macia Santiago,Guillermo Vidal de Miguel,Urs Frey,Pablo Sinues.Standardization procedures for real-time breath analysis by secondary electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry.Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry2019,411 (19) , 4883-4898.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-019-01764-8
- Martin Thomas Gaugg,Anna Engler,Lukas Bregy,Yvonne Nussbaumer‐Ochsner,Lara Eiffert,Tobias Bruderer,Renato Zenobi,Pablo Sinues,Malcolm Kohler.Molecular breath analysis supports altered amino acid metabolism in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.Respirology2019,24 (5) , 437-444.https://doi.org/10.1111/resp.13465
Analytical Chemistry
Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.
Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.
The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated.




