Exhaled and nasal nitric oxide measurements: recommendations

*Dept of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London, UK. **Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Correspondence. P.J. Barnes, Dept of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK. Received: April 3 1997; accepted for publication April 25 1997 This document was prepared following a Satellite Meeting of the European Respiratory Society Annual Scientific Meeting, held in Stockholm on 9 September, 1996, and attended by members of the ERS Taskforce on Measurement of Mediators in Exhaled Air (Chairman: Professor P.J. Barnes). Participants of the ERS Special Task Force Meeting "Measurement of Nitric Oxide in Exhaled Air" 9 September 1996, Stockholm: K. Alving (Stockholm, Sweden), P.J. Barnes (London, UK), J. Barbera (Barcelona, Spain), E. Baraldi (Padova, Italy), T. Dinh-Xuan (Paris, France), C.G. Frostell (Danderyd, Sweden); H.W.F.M. de Gouw (Leiden, The Netherlands), L. Gustafsson (Stockholm, Sweden), G. Hedenstierna (Uppsala, Sweden), T.W. Higenbottam (Sheffield, UK), M. Högman (Uppsala, Sweden), Q. Jobsis (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), J. De Jongste (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), H.A.M. Kerstjens (Groningen, The Netherlands), S.A. Kharitonov (London, UK), J. Kips (Ghent, Belgium), J.M. Lundberg (Stockholm, Sweden), J. Lundberg (Stockholm, Sweden), T.W. van der Mark (The Netherlands), N. Neuparth (Lisbon, Portugal), P.J. Sterk (Leiden, The Netherlands), P. Silkoff (Toronto, Canada), A. Sovijarvi (Helsinki, Finland), E. Weitzberg (Stockholm, Sweden).