The onset of many chronic diseases such as cancer, carcinogenesis, cardiovascular disease, and several other health problems, involves oxidative stress damage to biomolecules such as DNA, lipid, and proteins. There have been many preventative and therapeutic methods proposed to increase cellular defense mechanisms against oxidative damage such as using bioactive peptide with antioxidant activities from food sources. This study found that AAPH-induced oxidative stress in human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells caused changes in cellular morphological features and functionalities such as cell viability, activity of antioxidative enzymes (catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and superoxide dismutase (SOD)), production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and rate of apoptosis. The use of oat bran protein hydrolysates restored some of the properties to normal values (i.e., control cells). In this work, oat brans were treated with two carbohydrases (Cellulase ® (Cell) and viscozyme ® L (Visc) which cleave cell wall polysaccharides and produce oat bran protein isolates (OBPIs) with protein contents. OBPI was subsequently treated with proteases Alcalase (Alca), Flavourzyme ® (Flav), Papain (Papa) and Protamex (Prot) to produce four oat bran protein hydrolysates (OBPHs) from each of oat bran protein isolate (OBPIs). Antioxidative effects of both the two OBPI and four OBPH samples were studied in chemistry and HepG2 cell cultures assays. In the chemistry assays the antioxidative activities were determined using oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC), 2,2'-azino-bis (3ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) or ABTS •+ , radical, hydroxyl ( • OH), and superoxide anion (O2 •-) radical scavenging assays. Data from oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) and 2,2'azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS •+ ) assays were expressed as Trolox (a water-soluble vitamin E analogue) equivalent per gram (TE/g) of the sample followed the same pattern. The highest ORAC activities were observed in Cell/Papa (417.0 ± 5.1 TE/g), Visc/Flav (406.0 ± 8.8 TE/g) and Visc/Papa (397.0 ± 13.9 TE/g) while in the ABTS •+ , highest scavenging samples were Visc/Flav and Visc/Papa (863.80 ± 20.3 and 814.8 ± 17.2 TE/g respectively). In the hydroxyl radical scavenging assay, Cellulase and Viscozyme OBPIs significantly prevented the formation of • OH, radicals 38.5 ± 0.8 and 36.0 ± 0.4%, respectively compared to all hydrolysates. iii Superoxide anion radical scavenging activity was the highest in samples Visc/Alca and Cell/Prot both at 37.3 ± 0.9%. SDS-PAGE results indicated that globulin (58 kDa) was the main protein in OPBIs and those hydrolysates did not contain protein or fragments above 15 kDa. Cytotoxicity of OBPIs and OBPHs, their ability to reduce intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), and regulate the activity of three main antioxidant enzymes were evaluated in the AAPH-induced oxidative stress of HepG2 cells. Cytotoxic effect OBPH was evaluated using Visc/Flav ND at 50 -400 µg/mL. No cytotoxicity was observed in MTT (3-...