Prooxidants detection

Several hundreds of degradation products have been detected and identified in environmentally degraded polyethylenes. Thermo-oxidised LDPE with starch and prooxidants form, after 6 weeks, ketones, alcohols, aldehydes, lactones and carboxylic... 

Walker M, Beckert D, Lash J. Interaction of UV light-induced a-tocopherol radicals with lipids detected by an electron spin resonance prooxidation effect. Photochem Photobiol 1998 68(4) 502-10. 

It has been shown in this chapter that the DNA-modified electrodes (electrochemical DNA biosensors) already represent very effective and, at the same time, simple, fast, inexpensive, miniaturized, and mass-producible analytical devices for evaluation and classification of modes of genotoxic effects of individual xenobiotic compounds (e.g., chemical carcinogens, pesticides, dmgs, dyes, or reactive radical species), as well as for prescreening of new drugs and newly synthesized chemicals. Moreover, the evaluation of DNA protection capacity of various natural and synthetic chemical substances (antioxidants) is also possible using the detection of DNA damage caused by prooxidants. 

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