The propitious effects of antioxidants in preventing free-radical cell damage. (Senior Division).(Brief Article)

This experiment tested to see if antioxidant compounds can prevent free-radical cell damage caused by cigarette smoke. Three groups of yeast cells were used. The first, the control group, was not treated with cigarette smoke. The second and third yeast cultures were subjected to cigarette smoke bubbled through them with a sink faucet aspirator-driven artificial smoking machine. One of these latter two groups was also treated with an antioxidant compound. One measure of the damage to the yeast caused by antioxidants in the…