Pharmaceutical Compounds With Antioxidant Properties

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are one of the crucial compounds for healing wounds that can have a destructive effect and lead to chronic wounds if they are present in uncontrolled amounts. This makes it important to use materials for controlling the amounts of ROS, which are known as antioxidant agents. Indeed, several types of antioxidant agents have been introduced so far that are classified into two main groups: natural antioxidants and synthetic ones. In this chapter we focus on different types of antioxidants that could be used for wound healing applications, their mechanisms of action, methods used for their assessment and, finally, different carriers that could be used to improve the effectiveness and bioavailability of these compounds in the microenvironment of wounds.