Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Free Radicals: The Role of Antioxidants and Pro-Oxidants in Cancer Development and Therapy
(Aysegul Cort and Tomris Ozben, Antalya Turkey Department of Clinical Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey)
Chapter 2. Is There an Actual Benefit in Antioxidant Supplementation on Cancer Treatment?
(Décio Sabbatini Barbosa, Danielle Venturini, Francis Fregonesi Brinholi, Andressa Keiko Matsumoto, Carine Coneglian de Farias, Chiara Cristina Bortolasci, Kamila Landucci Bonifácio and Luciana Higachi, Department of Pathology, Clinical Analysis and Toxicology, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil)
Chapter 3. Vitamin E Isoforms: Multiple Mechanisms of Action against Carcinogenesis
(Sharon E. Campbell, Aashish S. Morani, William L. Stone, Koyamangalath Krishnan and Victoria E. Palau, Departments of Biomedical Sciences, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, US)
Chapter 4. Glutaredoxin in Cancer Development, Progression, Chemo-Resistance and Clinical Applications
(Ying Qu, Xiaojiang Cui and Ninghui Cheng, Department of Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women’s Cancer Institute, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, US and others)
Chapter 5. Pharmacological Ascorbate: Oxidative Stress and the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
(John A. Cieslak and Joseph J. Cullen, Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program, Departments of Surgery and Radiation Oncology, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, US)
Chapter 6. The Design, Synthesis and <i>In Vitro</i> Evaluation of a Novel Pro-Oxidant Anticancer Prodrug Substrate Targeted to Acylamino-Acid-Releasing Enzyme
(William L. Stone, Yu Lin Jiang, Christopher McGoldrick, Marianne Brannon and Koymangalath Krishnan, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, US)
Chapter 7. The Role of the Antioxidant Defense System in the Pathogenesis of Colorectal Cancer
(Martina Perše, Institute of Pathology, Medical Experimental Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Chapter 8. Oxidative Stress Imbalance in the Development of Prostate Cancer
(Trevor Memmott, Evita Weagel, Chris Hamilton, Richard A. Robison and Kim L. O’Neill, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, US)
Chapter 9. Registering Superoxide Production in Live Neuronal Cultures by EPR
(Matthew E. Pamenter and Sameh S. Ali, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and others)
Chapter 10. Role of Antioxidants in Cancer Onset and Development (Vanessa Fuchs-Tarlovsky and Jessica Calderon-Cuevas, Hospital General de Mexico, and The American Brithis Cowdray Medical Center, Oncology Center, Mexico City, Mexico and others)
Index