The Fantastic World of Free Radicals and Antioxidants: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Professor Dr. Etsuo Niki

Dear Colleagues,

Free radicals and antioxidants have attracted the attention, curiosity, and research of thousands of scholars worldwide since the beginning of the 1980s when the topic underwent a drastic transformation from a field of “super-experts” usually involved in basic theory and hard science (mainly chemistry) to a matter of daily discussion with dozens of applied examples in biology, botany, veterinary science, nutrition, as well as a plethora of clinical (both physiological and pathological) conditions.

Basic pioneering studies carried out by outstanding scientists such as Prof. Etsuo Niki have pushed new generations of researchers to study and apply the chemistry of free radicals and of antioxidants to make them as familiar as any other routine assays.

The contributions of Prof. Etsuo Niki in unraveling the behavior of vitamin E (and its analogs) activity and in explaining how, when, and why antioxidant capacity may be a valuable marker in numerous research studies is not easily quantifiable, and this is why we have decided to celebrate his scientific achievements together with the entire scientific community. This issue is dedicated to honoring what he has given so far and what he is yet to give to science.

Thank you, Professor Dr. Etsuo NIki!

Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino
Guest Editor

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