Part I: Reactive oxygen and nitrogen techniques.-- current status of measuring oxidative stress / Beniamino Palieri, Valeriana Sblendorio.-- pO2 and ROS/RNS measurements in the microcirculation in hyypoxia / Silvia Bertuglia, Marcos Intaglietta.-- Nitrate reductase activity of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH-2) as a redox sensor for cardiovascular oxidative stress / Andreas Daiber, Thomas Munzel.-- Identification of ROS using oxidixed DCFDA and flow-cytometry / Evgeniy Eruslanov, Sergei Kusmartsev.-- Mreasurement of 8-isoprostane in exhaled breath condensate / Paolo Montuschi, Peter J. Barnes, Giovanni Ciabattoni.-- Electron paramagnetic resonance oximetry and redoximetry / Buanglong He.-- Measurement of mitochondrial membrane potential and proton leak / Gaetano Serviddio, Juan Sastre.-- Deterimination of erythrocyte fagility as a marker of pesticide-induced membrane oxidative damage.-- Bechan Sharma, Devendra K. Rai, Prashant Kumar Rai, S.I. Rizvi, Geeta Watal.-- Using N,N.N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) to assay cyclooxygenase activity in vitro / Nenad Petrovic, Michael Murry.-- Structural and functional changes in the insulin molecule produced by oxidative stress / Rafael Medina-Navarro, Alberto M. Guzman-Grenfell, Ivonne Olivares-Corichi, and Juan J. Hicks.-- Multiphoton redox ratio imaging for metabolic monitoring in vivo / Melissa Skala, Niramala Ramanujam.-- Using fluorescence-activated flow cytometry to determine reactive oxygen species formation and membrane lipid peroxidation in viable boar spermatozoa / H. David Guthrie, Glenn R. Welch.-- Lipofuscin: detection and quantification by microscopic techniques / Tobias Jung, Annika Hohn, Tilman Grune.-- Part II. Antioxidant technology and application.-- OXY-SCORE: a global index to improve evaluation of oxidative stress by combining pro- and antioxidant radical scavengers / Fabrizio Veglia, Viviana Cavalca, Elena Tremoli.-- .-- Cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity assay for antioxidants in human serum and for hydroxyl radical scavengers / Resat Apak, Kubilay Guclu, Mustafa Ozyurek, Burcu Bektasoglu, Mustafa Bener.-- Analysis of antoxidant activities in vegetable oils and fat soluble vitamins and biofactors by the PAO-SO method / Kazuo Sakai, Satoko Kino, Masao Takeuchi, Tairin Ochi, Giuseppe Da Cruz, Isao Tomita.-- Measuring antioxidant capacity using the ORAC and TOSC assays / Andrew R. Garrett, Byron K. Murray, Richard A. Robinson, Kim L. O'Neill.-- Assessing the neuroprotective effect of antioxidant food factors by application of lipid-derived dopamine modification adducts / Xuebo Liu, Naruomi Yamada, Toshihiko Osawa.-- LIBS-based detection of antioxidant elements: a new strategy / Geeta Watal, Bechan Sharma, Prashant Kumar Rai, Dolly Jaiswal, Devendra K. Rai, Nilesh K. Rai, A.K. Rai.-- Method for evaluation of antioxidant activity based on inhibition of free radical induced erythrocyte hemolysis / Jun Takebayashi, Jianbin Chen, Akihiro Tai.-- Design and synthesis of antioxidant a-Lipoic acid hybrids / Maria Koufaki, Anastasia Detsi.-- Characterization of the antioxidant properties of pentaerithrityl tetranitrate (PETN)-induction of the intrinsic antioxidative system heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) / Andreas Daiber, Thomas Munzel.-- Direct determination of tissue aminothiol, disulfide, and thioether levels using HPLC-ECD with a novel stable boron-doped diamond working electrode / Bruce Bailey, John Waraska, Ian Acworth.-- Activation of erythrocyte plasma membrane redox system provides a useful method to evaluate antioxidant potential of plant polyphenols / Syed Ibrahim Rizvi,Rashmi Jha, Kanti Bhooshan Pandey.-- Antioxidant activity of biotransformed sex hormones facilitated by Bacillus stearothermophilus / Mohammad Afzal, Sameera Al-Awadi, Sosamma Oommen.-- Separation of phenylpropanoids and evaluation of their antioxidant activity / Sammer Yousuf, M. Iqbal Choudhary, Atta Ur Rahman.-- Part III. Gene expression.-- Generation of antioxidant adenovirus gene transfer vectors / Marc Elgon, Barry McGrath, Timothy O'Brien.-- Mapping of oxidative stress response elements of the caveolin-1 promoter / Janine N. Bartholomew, Ferruccio Galbiati.-- Part IV. Biostatistics.-- Meta-analysis: drawing conclusions when study results vary / Leslie Rosenthal, Enrique Schisterman