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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Feb 3;482(3):419–425. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.10.086

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The three steps of non-enzymatic lipid peroxidation. In the initiation step the first radicals are generated by redox active labile iron. In the propagation step radicals are able to react with new substrates, creating new radicals. The propagation step repeats until the termination step, where radicals are ‘quenched’ by antioxidants or reacting with another radical.