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This chapter is intended to provide a brief overview of the principles of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR, or completely equivalently electron spin resonance, ESR) spectroscopy applied to living animals. It attempts to indicate especially those areas in which this approach is likely to be of value because it can provide useful information that cannot be provided as well by other approaches. As a matter of convenience the descriptions are drawn principally from the authors’ laboratory but it should be noted that there are a number of laboratories around the world, especially in Japan, which are also actively pursuing these developments. Because of the need for brevity in this volume, the coverage is illustrative rather than comprehensive but this fits well with the aim of the book which is to provide a review that will be useful for the longer term rather than only a review of the current state of development.
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Swartz, H.M. et al. (1995). In vivo EPR spectroscopy. In: Ohya-Nishiguchi, H., Packer, L. (eds) Bioradicals Detected by ESR Spectroscopy. MCBU Molecular and Cell Biology Updates. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9059-5_20
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