tlooto
Sign up
BiologyChemistryMedicine

Biochemistry of oxidative stress.

B. Halliwell

2007.11.1BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

DOI: 10.1042/bst0351147

tlooto Summary

The ways in which oxidative stress and oxidative damage can affect cell behaviour both in vivo and in cell culture are examined, using cancer as an example.

Abstract

The terms 'antioxidant', 'oxidative stress' and 'oxidative damage' are widely used but rarely defined. This brief review attempts to define them and to examine the ways in which oxidative stress and oxidative damage can affect cell behaviour both in vivo and in cell culture, using cancer as an example.

Citation format

HALLIWELL, B. Biochemistry of oxidative stress. BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS, 2007, 35 Pt 5: 1147–50.