“…O'Neill (1983) firstly reported that natural compounds, such as thiols and ascorbate, can repair hydroxyl radical adducts of dGMP and dG with high rate constants (3.6 Â 10 7 e8.4 Â 10 8 M À1 s À1 ) in chemical systems without any repair enzymes (O'Neill, 1983;O'Neill and Chapman, 1985). Jiang et al (1997) found that the dGMP-OH adduct can be repaired non-enzymatically by hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives. In our laboratory we have systematically studied the fast repair activities of a variety of natural polyphenols, including verbascoside (VER), towards the oxidative damage of dGMP, dAMP, dCMP, TMP, deoxythymine radical anion, polyA, polyC, polyG, ssDNA and dsDNA (Huang et al, 2003;Shi et al, 1999Shi et al, , 2008Zhao et al, 2001Zhao et al, , 2003a.…”