Selected Review from the Current Issue:

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

Gunars Tirzitis and Grzegorz Bartosz

 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.

Acta Biochimica Polonica, 57(2), 139-142, Review