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

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.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Acta Biochimica Polonica

• Publication date

  2010-05-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.18388/ABP.2010_2386PMID 20454707
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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