Oxidative Stress Diagnostics, Prevention, and Therapy

Oxidative Stress: Diagnostics, Prevention, and Therapy By Silvana Andreescu and Maria Hepel (Eds.)
2011 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 0841226830 | PDF | 15 MB
Content: PREFACE ; 1. THE ROLE OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN HUMAN HEALTH ; SAIKAT SEN AND RAJA CHAKRABORTY ; 2. PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERED REDOX BALANCE IN HIV/AIDS INFECTION: DIAGNOSIS AND COUNTERACT INTERVENTIONS ; L. GIL DEL VALLE, PH.D. ; 3. THERMODYNAMICS OF FREE RADICAL REACTIONS AND THE REDOX ENVIRONMENT OF A CELL ; KLAUDIA JOMOVA AND MARIAN VALKO ; 4. OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE METABOLISM OF ESTROGENS LEADING TO CANCER INITIATION: PREVENTION BY SPECIFIC ANTIOXIDANTS ; ELEANOR G. ROGAN AND ERCOLE L. CAVALIERI ; 5. POLYPHENOL COMPOUNDS AS ANTIOXIDANTS FOR DISEASE PREVENTION: REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES SCAVENGING, ENZYME REGULATION, AND METAL CHELATION MECHANISMS IN E. COLI AND HUMAN CELLS ; HSIAO C. WANG AND JULIA L. BRUMAGHIM ; 6. DNA-PROTECTIVE MECHANISMS OF GLUTATHIONE INTERVENTION IN CATECHOL-MEDIATED OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF COPPER(II) IONS ; MARIA HEPEL, MAGDALENA STOBIECKA, JANET PEACHEY, AND JEREMIAH MILLER ; 7. ANTIOXIDANT EFFECTIVENESS IN PREVENTING PARAQUAT-MEDIATED OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF H2O2 ; MAGDALENA STOBIECKA, AMANDA PRANCE, KAITLIN COOPERSMITH, AND MARIA HEPEL ; 8. ARTIFICIAL NANOPARTICLE ANTIOXIDANTS ; ERICA SHARPE, DANIEL ANDREESCU, AND SILVANA ANDREESCU ; 9. CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLES FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL OXIDATIVE STRESS DISEASES ; A. Y. ESTEVEZ AND J. S. ERLICHMAN ; 10. DETECTION OF SUPEROXIDE AND HYDROGEN PEROXIDE FROM LIVING CELLS USING ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS ; SZILVESZTER GASPAR ; 11. PEROXYNITRITE AND NITROXIDATIVE STRESS: DETECTION PROBES AND MICRO-SENSORS. A CASE OF A NANOSTRUCTURED CATALYTIC FILM ; SERBAN F. PETEU, SALEEM BANIHANI, MUTHA M. GUNESEKERA, PUBUDU PEIRIS, OANA A. SICUIA, AND MEKKI BAYACHOU ; 12. BLUE NATIVE PAGE AND MASS SPECTROMETRY AS AN APPROACH FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF STABLE AND TRANSIENT PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS ; ALISA G. WOODS, IZABELA SOKOLOWSKA, RAMA YAKUBU, MELISSA BUTKIEWICZ, MARTIN LAFLEUR, CHRISTOPHER TALBOT, AND COSTEL C. DARIE ; 13. MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR PROTEOMICS-BASED INVESTIGATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS AND HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS ; IZABELA SOKOLOWSKA, ALISA G. WOODS, JESSICA WAGNER, JEANNETTE DORLER, KELLY WORMWOOD, JOHANNES THOME, AND COSTEL C. DARIE ; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX