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Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science
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Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?

Sukru Oter, Si Jin, Luca Cucullo, H.J. Damien Dorman.

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Abstract
Albeit the existence of ‘free radicals’ having been known for a considerable time within the sphere of chemistry, these interesting kinds of oxidizing molecules attracted the attention of medical scientists and physicians during the early 1950s when Denham Harman started to publish a number of reports on the “free radical theory of aging”. Two decades later, grounded in the recognition that free radical production in the cell occurs mainly in the mitochondria and that mutations of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are strongly involved in the aging process, this theory evolved into the “mitochondrial theory of aging”. Despite the ‘theory’ label, the entire medical world believes, at least in part, in the truth of this explanation for the underlying mechanisms of - the unavoidable biological process - aging.
Starting with the 1970s, overwhelming research...

Key words: Oxidants; Antioxidants; Free radicals; Reactive species; Redox signalling


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Oter S, Jin S, Cucullo L, Dorman HD. Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxid Antioxid Med Sci. 2012; 1(1): 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


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Oter S, Jin S, Cucullo L, Dorman HD. Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. www.scopemed.org/?mno=21048 [Access: May 18, 2013]. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


AMA (American Medical Association) Style

Oter S, Jin S, Cucullo L, Dorman HD. Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxid Antioxid Med Sci. 2012; 1(1): 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


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Oter S, Jin S, Cucullo L, Dorman HD. Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxid Antioxid Med Sci. (2012), [cited May 18, 2013]; 1(1): 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


Harvard Style

Oter, S., Jin, S., Cucullo, L. & Dorman, H. D. (2012) Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxid Antioxid Med Sci, 1 (1), 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


Turabian Style

Oter, Sukru, Si Jin, Luca Cucullo, and H.J. Damien Dorman. 2012. Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science, 1 (1), 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


Chicago Style

Oter, Sukru, Si Jin, Luca Cucullo, and H.J. Damien Dorman. "Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?." Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science 1 (2012), 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style

Oter, Sukru, Si Jin, Luca Cucullo, and H.J. Damien Dorman. "Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?." Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science 1.1 (2012), 1-4. Print. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


APA (American Psychological Association) Style

Oter, S., Jin, S., Cucullo, L. & Dorman, H. D. (2012) Oxidants and antioxidants: friends or foes?. Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science, 1 (1), 1-4. doi:10.5455/oams.080612.ed.001


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