CDCF-AOX Lab

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

A Protocol for Detecting and Scavenging Gas-phase Free Radicals in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke

Long-Xi Yu¹, Boris G. Dzikovski², Jack H. Freed²

¹CDCF-AOX Lab, ²National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University

Spin-trapping ESR spectroscopy was used to study the effect of plant antioxidants lycopene, pycnogenol and grape seed extract on scavenging gas-phase free radicals in cigarette smoke.