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

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-142

  Tirzitis, Gunars ^a   Bartosz, Grzegorz ^b,c  

^a LATVIAN INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC SYNTHESIS   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

Author keywords

ABTS; Antioxidant; Antiradical; DPPH; Hydroxyl radical

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953979658     PISSN: 0001527X     EISSN: 1734154X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18388/abp.2010_2386     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Atkinson J, Epand RF, Epand RM (2008) Tocopherols and tocotrienols in membranes: a critical review. Free Radic Biol Med 44: 739-764.
2. Azzi A, Davies KJA, Kelly F (2004) Free radical biology - terminology and critical thinking. FEBS Lett 558: 3-6.
3. Bardia A, Tleyjieh JM, Cerhan JR, Sood AK, Limburg PJ, Erwin PJ, Montori VM (2008) Efficiacy of antioxidant supplementation in reducing pimary cancer incidence and mortality: systematic and metaanalysis. Mayo Clin Proc 83: 23-34.
4. Bartosz G (2003) Total antioxidant capacity. Adv Clin Chem 37: 219-292.
5. Bartosz G (2005) The other face of oxygen. Free radicals in nature. Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw (in Polish).
6. Bartosz G (2009) Reactive oxygen species: Destroyers or messengers? Biochem Pharmacol 77: 1303-1315.
7. Bartosz G, Bartosz M (1999) Antioxidant activity: what do we measure? Acta Biochim Pol 46: 23-29
8. Bauzaite R, Venscutonis PR, Gruzdiene D, Tirzite D, Tirzitis G (200) Radical scavenging and antioxidant activity of various plants grown in Lithuania. In Food Technology and Quality Evaluation. Dris R, Sharma A, eds. pp 183-193. Science Publishers, In3, United States.
9. Bjelakovic G, Nikolova D, Simonetti RG, Glood C (2004) Antioxidant supplements for prevention of gastrointestinal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 364: 1219-1228.
10. Bondet V, Brand-Williams W, Berset C (1997) Kinetics and mechanism of antioxidant activity using the DPPH free radical method. Lebensmitt Wissensch Technol 30: 609-615.
11. Burlakova EB, Alesenko AV, Molochkina EM, Palmina NP, Khrapova NG (1975) Bioantioxidants in radiation damages and malignant growth. Moscow: Nauka (in Russian).
12. Davalos A, Gomez-Cordoves C, Bartolome B (2003) Commercial dietary antioxidant supplements assayed for their antioxidant activity by different methodologies. J Agric Food Chem 51: 2512-2519.
13. Engin KN (2009) Alpha-tocopherol: looking beyond an antioxidant. Mol Vision 15: 855-860.
14. Ferrer-Sueta G, Radi R (2009) Chemical biology of peroxynitrite: kinetics, diffusion, and radicals. ACS Chem Biol 20: 161-177.
15. Frankel EN, Finley JW (2008) How to standardize the multiplicity of methods to evaluate natural antioxidants. J Agric Food Chem 56: 4901-4908.
16. Ghezzi P, Bonetto V, Fratelli M (2005) Thiol-disulfide balance: from the concept of oxidative stress to that of redox regulation. Antiox Redox Signal 7: 964-972.
17. Gutteridge JMC, Halliwell B (1994) Antioxidants in nutrition, health, and disease. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Tokyo.
18. Halliwell B (2006) Reactive species and antioxidants. Redox biology is a fundamental theme for aerobic life. Plant Physiol 141: 312-322.
19. Halliwell B (2007) Dietary polyphenols: Good, bad, or indifferent for our health? Cardiovasc Res 73: 341-347.
20. Halliwell B, Gutteridge JMC (1999) Free radicals in biology and medicine: Oxford University Press.
21. Huang D, Ou B, Prior RL (2005) The chemistry behind antioxidant capacity assays. J Agric Food Res 53: 1841-1856.
22. Huang HY, Caballero B, Chang S, Alberg A, Semba R, Schneyer C, Wilson RF, Chang TY, Prokopowicz G, Barnes GJ 2nd, Vassy J, Bass EB (2006) Multivitamin/mineral supplements and prevention of chronic disease. Evid Rep Technol Assess 139: 1-117.
23. Janaszewska A, Bartosz G (2002) Assay of total antioxidant capacity: comparison of four methods as applied to human blood plasma. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 62: 231-236.
24. Jones DP (2006) Redefining oxidative stress. Antiox Redox Signal 8: 1865-1879.
25. Jones DP (2008) Radical-free biology of oxidative stress. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C849-C868.
26. Knasmüller S, Nersesyan A, Nišik M, Gerner C, Mikulits W, Erlich V, Hoelzl C, Szakmary A, Wagner K-H (2008) Use of conventional and -omics based methods for health claims of dietary antioxidants: a critical overview. Brit J Nutr 99 E (Suppl 1): ES3-ES52.
27. Miller ERI, Pastor-Barriuso R, Dalal D, Riemersma RA, Appel IJ, Guallar E (2005) High-dosage vitamin E supplementation may increase all-cause mortality. Ann Internal Med 142: 37-46.
28. Molyneux P (2004) The use of the stable free radical diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) for estimating antioxidant activity. Songklanakrin J Sci Technol 26: 211-216.
29. Moon J-K, Shinamoto T (2009) Antioxidant assays for plant and food components. J Agric Food Chem 57: 1655-1666.
30. Musialik M, Litwinienko G (2005) Scavenging of dph radicals by vitamin E is accelerated by its partial ionization: the role of sequential proton loss electron transfer. Org Lett 7: 4951-4954.
31. Nenadis N, Tsimidou M (2002) Observation on the estimation of scavenging activity of phenolic compounds using rapid 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH.) tests. J Am Oil Chem Soc 79: 1191-1195.
32. Re R, Pellegrini N, Proteggente A, Pannala A, Yang M, Rice-Evans C (1999) Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay. Free Radic Biol Med 26: 1231-1237.
33. Ricciarelli R, Zingg J-M, Azzi A (2001) Vitamin E: protective role of a Janus molecule. FASEB J 15: 2314-2325.
34. Sanchez-Moreno C (2002) Review: Methods used to evaluate the free radical scavenging activity in foods and biological systems. Food Sci Technol Int 8: 121-137.
35. Sharma OP, Bhat TK (2009) DPPH antioxidant assay revisited. Food Chem 113: 1201-1205.
36. Shi H, Noguchi N, Niki E (2001) Galvinoxyl method for standardizing electron and proton donating activity. Methods Enzymol 335: 157-166.
37. Villano D, Fernandez-Pachon MS, Moya ML, Troncoso AM, Garcia-Parilla MC (2007) Radical scavenging ability of phenolic compounds towards DPPH free radical. Talanta 71: 230-235.
38. Virgili F, Marino M (2008) Regulation of cellular signals from nutritional molecules: a specific role for phytochemicals beyond antioxidant activity. Free Radic Biol Med 45: 1205-1216.