Nirmal K. Ganguly • Surinder K. Jindal
Shyam Biswal • Peter J. Barnes
Ruby Pawankar
Editors

2014

Oxygen species constitute an important vehicle of damage in disease pathogenesis including several respiratory diseases. Although the information has been available for more than four decades, it had been difficult to attribute a specific role to oxidative stress in a cause-and-effect relationship. In respiratory medicine, some of the earlier studies had focused on pulmonary infections, including tuberculosis. Advances in the study of volatile organic components in the expired air have made it possible to examine some of the hitherto not understood mechanisms in different pulmonary diseases, particularly the airway disorders.