Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Mechanisms of Oxygen Activation and Reactive Oxygen Species Detoxification

   • Enrique Cadenas

   Pages 1-61

3. Pathophysiology and Reactive Oxygen Metabolites

   • Yan Chen, Allen M. Miles, Matthew B. Grisham

   Pages 62-95

4. Free Radical Mechanism of Oxidative Modification of Low Density Lipoprotein (or the Rancidity of Body Fat)

   • Balaraman Kalyanaraman

   Pages 96-116

5. Synthetic Pro-oxidants: Drugs, Pesticides and Other Environmental Pollutants

   • Sidney J. Stohs

   Pages 117-180

6. Metabolic Detoxification of Plant Prooxidants

   • May R. Berenbaum

   Pages 181-209

7. Antioxidant Mechanisms of Secondary Natural Products

   • Richard A. Larson

   Pages 210-237

8. Antioxidant Mechanisms of Enzymes and Proteins

   • Sami Ahmad

   Pages 238-272

9. Antioxidant Defenses of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium

   • Richard P. Cunningham, Holly Ahern

   Pages 273-297

10. Antioxidant Defenses of Plants and Fungi

    • David A. Dalton

    Pages 298-355

11. Oxidative Stress of Vertebrates and Invertebrates

    • Gary W. Felton

    Pages 356-434

12. Genetic Regulation of Antioxidant Defenses in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium

    • Holly Ahern, Richard P. Cunningham

    Pages 435-446

13. Back Matter

    Pages 447-457

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• Activation
• Salmonella typhimurium
• antioxidant
• biology
• enzyme
• enzymes
• escherichia coli
• fungi
• natural product
• oxidative stress
• protein
• proteins
• regulation
• resistance
• toxicology

...on reading the unusual melange of contributors and specific topics covered Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defences in Biology, this feeling [deja vu] is soon replaced by one of enthusiastic anticipation - and with the majority of chapters one is not diappointed. - The Biochemist

• Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  Sami Ahmad

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