Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has become a classic text in the field of free radical and antioxidant research since its first publication in 1985. This latest edition will be comprehensively rewritten and updated, whilst maintaining the clarity of its predecessors.

List 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

Summary

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has become a classic text in the field of free radical and antioxidant research since its first publication in 1985. This latest edition will be comprehensively rewritten and updated, whilst maintaining the clarity of its predecessors.

Product details

• Authors: John M. C. Gutteridge, Gutteridge John M. C., Barry Halliwell, Barry ( Halliwell, Halliwell Barry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2015
• EAN: 9780198717485
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871748-5
• No. of pages: 944
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Medical research, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, MEDICAL / Research, MEDICAL / Toxicology, biochemistry, Medical toxicology, Cellular biology (cytology)