reactive oxygen species

Reactive oxygen's role in metastasis

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 09/14/2009 - 22:00

(Burnham Institute) Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have discovered that reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, play a key role in forming invadopodia, cellular protrusions implicated in cancer cell migration and tumor metastasis.