**Meet the editor**

Prof. Rizwan Ahmad is working as a faculty in the College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ahmad has established the School of Life and Allied Health Sciences as its founding head at Glocal University, India. He has worked as an associate professor of Biochemistry at Oman Medical College in partnership with WVU, USA, from 2010 to 2013. He

has published several research papers in refereed journals. The focus of his research has been on free radical biochemistry and nucleic acid immunology. He has been appointed as a reviewer in many international journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Antioxidants 1** Rizwan Ahmad

**Exercise 25**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Basics of Free Radicals and**

Rheal A. Towner and Nataliya Smith

Chapter 4 **EPR Analysis of Antioxidant Compounds 49** Betül Çalişkan and Ali Cengiz Çalişkan

Chapter 5 **Oxidative Stress in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus:**

**Ethnic Aspects 65**

Chapter 2 **Detecting In Vivo Free Radicals in Various Disease Models 5**

Aline de Freitas Brito, Caio Victor Coutinho de Oliveira, Glêbia Alexa Cardoso, Joana Marcela Sales de Lucena, Jordanna di Paula dos

Chapter 3 **Oxidative Stress and Vascular Diseases: Effect of Physical**

Santos Sousa and Alesandra Araújo de Souza

Lyubov I. Kolesnikova, Marina A. Darenskaya, Lyudmila A. Grebenkina, Svetlana V. Gnusina and Sergey I. Kolesnikov

Julio Amadeo Mendoza-Betancourt, Robert David Kross, Maria Angeles Moro, Ignacio Lizasoain, Luis Humberto Pérez-Astudillo,

**Reperfusion: Role for Mitochondria and Calcium Channels 87**

Oscar Arriagada, Adriana V. Treuer and Daniel R. González

Chapter 6 **Dimethylformamide Reduces Cerebral Ischaemia in Diabetic Rats Hours after Its Occurrence; A New Horizon 73**

Arturo Alva-Félix-Díaz and Cleva Villanueva

Chapter 7 **Cardioprotective Effects of S-Nitrosothiols in Ischemia-**
