Free Radicals

A handbook for biologists and biochemists on free radicals, emphasizing the techniques for analysing free radicals. Free radicals, atoms with at least one unpaired electron, the most abundant of which is molecular oxygen, are implicated in many degradative or damaging processes in cells, and also play important roles in physiologic regulation. Spinn trapping, the spectroscopic methods for studying free radicals, is subject to a range of difficulties, potential artifacts or errors of interpretation that make a practical, helpful, trouble-shooting guide a rather high priority for anyone working in the area, and there is presently no such book.