1. Preface

   • Nirmal K. Ganguly
   • Pawan K. Singal

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Strand scission in DNA induced by dietary flavonoids: role of Cu(I) and oxygen free radicals and biological consequences of scission

   • Arshad Rahman
   • Fabeha Fazal
   • S. M. Hadi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 9

3. Interrelation of active oxygen species, membrane damage and altered calcium functions

   • Poonam Kakkar
   • Sudhir Mehrotra
   • P. N. Viswanathan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 15

4. Singlet oxygen: a potential culprit in myocardial injury?

   • Rakesh C. Kukreja
   • Robert L. Jesse
   • Michael L. Hess

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 24

5. Time-course of cardiac myocyte injury due to oxidative stress

   • L. A. Kirshenbaum
   • T. P. Thomas
   • P. K. Singal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 31

6. Characterization of oxygen free radicals generated during vanadate-stimulated NADH oxidation

   • P. Kalyani
   • S. Vijaya
   • T. Ramasarma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 40

7. Protective role of ascorbic acid against lipid peroxidation and myocardial injury

   • Sunil Chakrabarty
   • Anuradha Nandi
   • Indu B. Chatterjee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 47

8. Lipid peroxidation during myocardial reperfusion

   • C. Ceconi
   • A. Cargnoni
   • R. Ferrari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 54

9. Oxygen free radicals in volume overload heart failure

   • K. Prasad
   • J. B. Gupta
   • B. Bharadwaj

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 59

10. Occurrence of oxidative stress during myocardial reperfusion

    • R. Ferrari
    • C. Ceconi
    • O. Visioli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 69

11. Free radicals in myocardial injury: experimental and clinical studies

    • N. K. Ganguly
    • K. Nalini
    • R. N. Chakravarti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 76

12. Oxygen-derived free radicals and hemolysis during open heart surgery

    • Dipak K. Das
    • Richard M. Engelman
    • David W. Deaton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 86

13. Differences in adaptive stabilization of structures in response to stress and hypoxia relate with the accumulation of hsp70 isoforms

    • Felix Z. Meerson
    • Igor Yu. Malyshev
    • Alexander V. Zamotrinsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 95

14. Reduced free radical generation during reperfusion of hypothermically arrested hearts

    • M. Renuka Prasad
    • Xuekun Liu
    • Dipak K. Das

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 102

15. Oxygen free radicals in essential hypertension

    • S. Sagar
    • I. J. Kallo
    • B. K. Sharma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 108

16. Dietary supplementation of Vitamin E protects heart tissue from exercise-induced oxidant stress

    • Charles T. Kumar
    • Veera K. Reddy
    • P. Reddanna

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 115

17. Studies on spice principles as antioxidants in the inhibition of lipid peroxidation of rat liver microsomes

    • A. Ch. Pulla Reddy
    • B. R. Lokesh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 124

18. Glutathione homeostasis in brain during reperfusion following bilateral carotid artery occlusion in the rat

    • Bangalore R. Shivakumar
    • Sastry V. R. Kolluri
    • Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 129

19. Nonesterified fatty acids and lipid peroxidation

    • K. A. Balasubramanian
    • S. Nalini
    • M. Manohar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 135

20. Atherosclerosis: the eicosanoid connection

    • Amar N. Makheja

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 142

21. Role of oxidized human plasma low density lipoproteins in atherosclerosis: effects on smooth muscle cell proliferation

    • Subroto Chatterjee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 147