Determination of antiradical and antioxidant activity: basic principles and new insights

• Authors: Gunars Tirzitis , Grzegorz Bartosz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Although the term 'antioxidant' is used very frequently, there are problems with the definition of antioxidants and estimation of antioxidant activity. The distinction between antioxidant and antiradical activities is not always obvious. This minireview discusses critically the principles, advantages and limitations of the most frequently used methods of estimation of antiradical and antioxidant activities.

Keywords

EN

DPPH; ABTS; hydroxyl radical; antiradical; antioxidant

• Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
• Journal: Acta Biochimica Polonica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 139-142

Dates

published

2010

received

2009-11-10

revised

2010-02-05

accepted

2010-02-06

(unknown)

2010-05-11

Contributors

author

Gunars Tirzitis

• Laboratory of Membranoactive Compounds, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia

author

Grzegorz Bartosz

• Department of Molecular Biophysics, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

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