Includes bibliographical references and index.

A free radical primer / Prachi Gupta, Andrew Lakes, and Thomas Dziubla -- Oxidative stress, inflammation, and disease / Shampa Chatterjee -- Oxidative stress, inflammation, and the corrosion of metallic biomaterials: corrosion causes biology and biology causes corrosion / Jeremy L. Gilbert and Gregory W. Kubacki -- Oxidative stress and biomaterials: the inflammatory link / Isaac M. Adjei, Glendon Plumton, and Blanka Sharma -- Nanoparticle toxicity and environmental impact / Yiqun Mo, Aihua Gu, David J. Tollerud, and Qunqei Zhang -- In vitro cellular assays for oxidative stress and biomaterial response / Mahail I. Mitov, Vinod S. Patil, Michael C. Alstott, Thomas Dziubla, and D. Allan Butterfield -- Redox interactions between nanomaterials and biological systems / Devrah Arndt and Jason Unrine -- Hydrocyanines: a versatile family of probes for imaging radical oxidants in vitro and in vivo / Kousik Kundu and Niren Murthy -- Oxidation state as bioresponsive trigger / John R. Martin and Craig L. Duvall -- Antioxidant polymers as biomaterial / Robert van Lith and Guillermo A. Ameer -- Oxidation of total joint implants and antioxidant strategies: designing implants for oxidative stress resistance / Ebru Oral -- Targest antioxidant interventions for vascular pathologies / Elizabeth D. Hood, Vladimir V. Shuvaev, and Vladimir R. Muzykantov -- Oral mucositis as a target for antioxidant biomaterial therapy / Nihar M. Shah.