Oxidative Stress in Aging || The Basics of Oxidative Biochemistry

✍ Scribed by Miwa, Satomi; Beckman, Kenneth B.; Muller, Florian L.

• Book ID: 120158276
• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Edition: 2008
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1597454206
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-420-9_2

✦ Synopsis

Human aging is a complex phenomenon. This state-of-the-art book discusses the role of free radicals in aging in different animal models, as well as the relevance of free radicals on age-related diseases and pathological conditions in humans (following an introduction section of the basics and theory of free radicals). In addition, the major interventions trials of antioxidant supplements in age-related disease, cancer and so forth are reviewed and discussed.