Free radical mechanisms in relation to tissue injury

Abstract

The present paper is a broad-ranging account of free-radical biochemistry in general, and of free-radical mechanisms of tissue injury in particular. Because it is broad-ranging within tight constraints of length it is necessarily lacking in detail on some issues of relevance; the following reviews can be consulted for additional coverage: Slater (1972, 1978, I&), Pryor (1976-84), Mason (1982), Halliwell & Gutteridge (1984).