[Antioxidant protection, metabolites of nitrogen oxide on the forming of oxidative stress in patients with bronchial asthma].

276 Patients with bronchial asthma of different degree of severity have been observed. An increase in processes of lipid peroxidation, depression of antioxidant protection, increase in oxide nitrogen metabolites in blood serum and condensate of exhaled air were detected. These pathological changes may be considered as manifestation of system oxidative stress more expressed in bronchi.