Reactive oxygen's role in metastasis

Courtesy 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.


 

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