title: Biochemistry of oxidative stress.
abstract: The terms 'antioxidant', 'oxidative stress' and 'oxidative damage' are widely used but rarely defined. This brief review attempts to define them and to examine the ways in which oxidative stress and oxidative damage can affect cell behaviour both in vivo and in cell culture, using cancer as an example.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 8 Medical Drive, MD7 Level 2, Singapore 117597, Singapore. bchbh@nus.edu.sg
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Halliwell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D018384:Oxidative Stress
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants