by Michael Breitenbach (Guest Editor), Peter Eckl (Guest Editor)

Oxidative stress is now a well-researched area with thousands of new articles
appearing every year. We want to give the reader here an overview of the topics in biomedical
and basic oxidative stress research which are covered by the authors of this thematic issue.
We also want to give the newcomer a short introduction into some of the basic concepts,
definitions and analytical procedures used in this field.