Table of Contents: Preface
Chapter 1: Antioxidants in Differentiation of Leukemic Cells
(Guillermo Lòpez-Lluch, Emilio Siendones, Daniel J. Moreno Fernández-Ayala, and Plácido Navas, Centro Andaluz de Medicina del Desarrollo, CABD-CSIC, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain) (pp. 1-34)
Chapter 2: Mechanism of Tumorigenesis: Focus on Oxidative Stress, Electron Transfer and Antioxidants
(Peter Kovacic, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University, USA, Ratnasamy Somanathan, Centro de Graduados e Investigaciòn del Instituto Tecnològico de Tijuana, B.C.) (pp. 35-76)
Chapter 3: Antioxidant Effects of Astragali Radix Oxidative Stress
(Shizuo Toda, Kansai College of Oriental Medicine, Osaka, Japan) (pp. 77-84)
Chapter 4: Role of Vitamin E in Cellular Antioxidant Defense - A New Perspective
(Ching Kuang Chow, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Kentucky, USA) (pp. 85-97)
Chapter 5: Natural Antioxidants from Agro-Food by Products: an Experimental Approach for Recovery of Phenolics from Wine-Making by-Products
(Giorgia Spigno, Lorenza Tramelli, Dante Marco De Faveri, Institute of Enology and Food Engineering - Universitá Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Italy) (pp. 99-129)
Chapter 6: Histidine-Containing Dipeptides as Hydrophilic Tissue Antioxidants
(Alexander A. Boldyrev, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) (pp. 131-201)
Chapter 7: N-H or C-H Bonds Cleavage in N-Phenyl-N'-Alkyl-p-Phenylenediamine Antioxidants?
(Martin Breza, Department of Physical Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia) (pp. 203-231)
Chapter 8: A Novel 88 kDa Acute Phase Protein in Inflammations and its Antioxidant Function
(S. Ramakrishnan, M. Rajesh, K.N. Sulochana, Biochemistry Research Department, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India) (pp. 233-252)
Chapter 9: Influences of Alpha-Ketoglutarate and Ornithine Alpha-Ketoglutarate on Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidants and on their Temporal Patterns
(P. Subramanian, K.B. Dakshayani, M. Mohamed Essa, Department of Biochemistry, Annamalai Univeristy, India) (pp. 253-268)
Chapter 10: Determination of the Antioxidant Content of Certain Prophylactic and Treatment Preparations
(Z.G. Kozlova, A.A. Kharitonova, V.F. Tsepalov, Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Moscow, Russia) (pp. 269-273)
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