内容简介：
This volume provides insights into current thinking and controversies regarding oxygen free radicals and reactive oxygen species in tissue dysfunction and pathology. Bringing together contributions from scientists actively involved in reactive oxygen species research, the work presents these contributors' ideas and concepts regarding new advances in this rapidly expanding field of research. To readers new to this field, it provides an introduction and a state-of-the-art overview of important topics relevant to understanding oxygen free radicals. Readers familiar with oxygen free should gain new insights. Included in this text are chapters detailing the chemistry of oxygen free radicals as well as discussing methods for detecting and generating these highly reactive and short-lived chemicals. The contributors also explore the roles played by oxygen free radicals in damage to the heart, the brain, the microvascular system and the immune system. A discussion of the properties of various chemicals which can provide protection against these potentially destructive substancies is also presented.