The Protective Role of Antioxidants in the Defence against ROS/RNS-Mediated Environmental Pollution

Table 4

Studies demonstrating increased oxidative stress/damage due to exposure to selected toxic compounds and the protective effects of antioxidants.

Other	Increased oxidative stress markers	Study	Antioxidants exerting a protective effect	Study
Formaldehyde	Lipid peroxidation	Chang and Xu (2006) [193]	Rose oil	Köse et al. (2011) [194]
	Imbalance in antioxidant status	Chang and Xu (2006) [193]	Melatonin	Zararsiz et al. (2007) [196]
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)	Increased ROS production	Brent and Rumack (1993) [197]	Electrolysed reduced water	Tsai et al. (2009) [198]
	Lipid peroxidation	Morrow et al. (1992) [199]; Basu (2003) [200]	Apricot; (Prunus armeniaca L.)	Ozturk et al. (2009) [201]
			Vitamin E	Adaramoye (2009) [202]
			Megahydrate silica hydride; Lutein	Hsu et al. (2010) [203]; Sindhu et al. (2010) [204]
			Curcuma longa	Lee et al. (2010) [205]
			Acetyl-L-carnitine	Annadurai et al. (2011) [206]
			Blackberry extract	Cho et al., (2011) [207]
			Capsaicin	Hassan et al. (2012) [208]
			Propolis	Bhadauria (2012) [209]
			Melatonin and pinoline	Aranda et al. (2010) [210]
			Black and green tea	Almurshed (2006) [211]
Water disinfection; byproducts	ROS production; (OH^∙, H2O2, and singlet O2)	Hassoun and Ray (2003) [212]	Ascorbate, glutathione, and urate	Yadav et al. (2010) [213]
			Ascorbate and desferal N-acetyl-cysteine	Yadav et al. (2010) [213]; Leustik et al. (2008) [214]
			Ascorbate and deferoxamine	Zarogiannis et al. (2011) [215]
			Green tea catechins	Kawai et al. (2008) [216]
			Melatonin	Tan et al. (2000) [217]
			S-allylcysteine	Medina-Campos et al. (2007) [218]
			Thioallyl compounds from garlic	Argüello-García et al. (2010) [219]
			Trolox	Strosova et al. (2009) [220]
			Vitamin C	Carr et al. (2000) [221]
			Glutathione	Rezk et al. (2004) [222]
			Many other local Mediterranean plant foods	Schaffer et al. (2004) [223]