**Meet the editor**

Dr. Pinar Atukeren was born in Istanbul on May 1975. She is a professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University. She received her master's degree in 1999 and PhD degree in 2005 at the same department. She received the National Research Grant Award for successful students from the Scientific and Technical

Research Council of Turkey. Her research interests are oxidative and nitrosative stress, free radicals and antioxidants, neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors, and aging. She has published many papers in SCI and SCIE journals and both international and national books and book chapters.

Contents

**Preface VII**

David W. Johnson

**Constipation 65**

Sabiha Fatima

Carine Laurent

Chapter 7 **Erythrocyte Nitric Oxide 131**

Chapter 1 **Oxidative Stress: Noxious but Also Vital 1**

Derbocio dos Santos and Henning Ulrich

Chapter 3 **Role of Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress in Diarrhea and**

Chapter 5 **Particularities of Oxidative Stress in Newborns 93** Melinda Mátyás and Gabriela Zaharie

Carlota Saldanha and Ana Silva-Herdade

Chapter 6 **Oxidative Stress in Hadrontherapy 109**

Kaïs Rtibi, Hichem Sebai and Lamjed Marzouki

Chapter 4 **Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Male Reproduction 71**

Chapter 2 **The Role of Oxidative Stress and Systemic Inflammation in**

Margarete Dulce Bagatini, Jeandre Augusto dos Santos Jaques, Carla Santos de Oliveira, Graciele Almeida de Oliveira, Micheli Mainardi Pillat, Aline Mânica, Cintia dos Santos Moser, Lucas

**Kidney Disease and Its Associated Cardiovascular Risk 33** Aye San, Magid Fahim, Katrina Campbell, Carmel M. Hawley and
