SIDEBAR : Resources For Free Radical And Antioxidant Research
Professional Societies: Oxygen Society 74 New Montgomery, Suite 230 San Francisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 546-3124 - Fax: (415) 764-4915 E-mail: 76125.3071@compuserve.com 750 members President: Bruce Freeman Executive Director: Carol Holland Parlette Journal: Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine Internet home page: https://www.biophysics.mcw.edu/oxsoc/ International Society for Free Radical Research c/o Lester Packer, president-elect Department of Molecular and Cell Biology 251 Life Science Addition University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif. 94720-3200 (510) 642-1873 - Fax: (510) 642-8313 E-mail: packer@garnet.berkeley.edu 3,000 members Internet home page: https://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~bcstrlw/sfrr.html Internet Site For additional information on free radical and antioxidant research, contact the National Institutes of Health's home page at https://www.nih.gov. Aerobic organisms exist in a perpetual catch-22. Oxygen sustains them, but it also poisons them via reactive intermediates produced during respiration. The powerful oxidants produced in this process -- including the superoxide anion, hydroxyl radicals, and hydrogen ...
