“…The globin radical in ferrylHb is very unstable and rapidly decays to a longer-lived radical-free ferryl form (McArthur & Davies, 1993). FerrylHb undergoes slow acid-catalyzed autoreduction to the ferric (met) form (Tresoriere et al, 2001), but the regenerated metHb is not identical with the initial met state: some hemichrome and dimers of Hb subunits are also formed (Kowalczyk et al, 2007). The reduction of the ferryl form of hemoglobin is facilitated by some reducing compounds, including ascorbate (Giulivi & Davies, 1990), rutin (Grinberg et al, 1994), urate (Everse & Hsia, 1997), melatonin (Tresoriere et al, 2001), trolox (Tresoriere et al, 2001, and epigallocatechin (Jia & Alayash, 2008).…”