Reactive Oxygen Species - ROS-directed Cancer Chemotherapeutics

ROS-directed Cancer Chemotherapeutics

Recent research demonstrates that redox dysregulation originating from metabolic alterations and dependence on mitogenic and survival signaling through ROS represents a specific vulnerability of malignant cells that can be selectively targeted by pro- and antioxidant redox chemotherapeutics.

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