“…for ALS [1640], atherosclerosis [106,764], cardiovascular disease [1641-1645], neuroprotection [1646], macular degeneration [1647], pre-eclampsia [1648-1652], critical care medicine [1653], aging [1165,1168,1654,1655], lung disease [1656], elective surgery involving ischaemia-reperfusion [1657], all-cause mortality [1637,1658], etc. One interpretation for these disappointing results, that is consistent with the general theme of this review, involves the recognition that a variety of anti oxidants can in fact act as pro -oxidants and thus actually promote the production of OH • radicals in the presence of inappropriately or inadequately liganded Fe(II) [130,528,1602,1604,1659,1660]. (One might also comment that the intracellular location of the anti oxidants may be an issue, and that the view that targeting them to mitochondria may well have considerable merit [1661-1663]. )…”