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Antioxidants and Wound Healing

Antioxidants and wound healing refers to the role of molecules that neutralize reactive oxygen species in supporting tissue repair processes following injury. Oxidative stress can impair healing by damaging cellular components, while controlled Antioxidant Activity may help restore balance during recovery. Research …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 3 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 24× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2471-2140 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Antioxidants and wound healing refers to the role of molecules that neutralize reactive oxygen species in supporting tissue repair processes following injury. Oxidative stress can impair healing by damaging cellular components, while controlled Antioxidant Activity may help restore balance during recovery. Research published in Antioxidant Activity has examined this relationship through multiple approaches. Studies have investigated the antioxidant properties of medicinal plants, including Surinamese species with adaptogenic characteristics and curry leaf extracts from Bangladesh, analyzing correlations between phenolic content and free radical scavenging capacity that may be relevant to therapeutic applications. Additional work has explored the complex effects of oxidative molecules themselves, examining how ozone-oxygen treatments produce mild oxidative stress in testicular tissue following ischemia-reperfusion injury, a condition where blood flow restoration paradoxically generates damaging reactive species. This research contributes to understanding how antioxidant mechanisms function in different biological contexts and injury models. The topic matters because wound healing involves carefully regulated oxidative processes, and identifying natural or therapeutic antioxidant sources could inform strategies to support tissue repair while minimizing oxidative damage in clinical and traditional medicine settings.

Research published in this journal

3 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 3 articles above have been cited 24 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Antioxidant Activity (ISSN 2471-2140).

Journal editorial board
Deepak Kasote · Qatar Mahmoudreza Ovissipour · United States Sudhiranjan Gupta, Ph.D. · United States

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