Table of Contents

1: Oxygen: Boon yet Bane DS introducing oxygen toxicity and reactive species
2: Redox chemistry: the essentials
3: Antioxidant defences synthesized in vivo
4: Antioxidants from the diet
5: Oxidative stress and redox regulation: adaptation, damage, repair, senescence and death
6: Measurement of reactive species
7: Reactive species can pose special problems needing special solutions: some examples
8: Reactive species can be useful: some more examples
9: Reactive species can be poisonous: their role in toxicology
10: Reactive species in disease: friends or foes?
11: Ageing, nutrition, disease and therapy: a role for antioxidants?
Appendix

About the Author

Barry Halliwell, Executive Director, Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, John M. C. Gutteridge

Reviews

The content of Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine is as wide as the horizon and as deep as the ocean: nobody can ever dream to satisfactorily capture it in the limited space available for a book review. The target audience that will undoubtedly profit from this gigantic work is equally wide: biologists, biochemists, medical doctors, nutritionists, therapists with a sound background. It stands as an invaluable reference to be consulted without moderation, although a deep understanding certainly requires repeated reading and study.
*Massimo Nespolo, Structural Biology*