In article <4upskb$p29 at news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> jmsdean at pipeline.com writes:
>From: jmsdean at pipeline.com>Subject: why not just stop free radicals?
>Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:32:11 GMT
>can someone please explain how free radicals are formed. there's lots of
>talk about the body forming free radicals when the cells use oxygen but i'm
>not sure how this is done.
>>secondly, what is the chemical structure of a free radical.
>>lastly, why is stopping free radical production, as opposed to using
>scaverngers like anti-oxidants, not a current possibility.
See ( he says modestly ), P Proctor, Free Radicals and Human Disease, in CRC
handbood of Free Radicals and Antioxidants, Vol 1 (1989) p 209. For a review.
This is a pretty complicated subject.
Dr. P
