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

Gunars Tirzitis; Grzegorz Bartosz

doi:10.18388/abp.2010_2386

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

Gunars Tirzitis Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia. gunars.tirzitis@gmail.com <gunars.tirzitis@gmail.com>;
Grzegorz Bartosz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2010_2386

Abstract

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.

Published

2010-05-11

Issue

Vol. 57 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Articles

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