Online Ahead of Print: May 17, 2010
Thomas Kietzmann
Department Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Keywords: reactive oxygen species (ROS), act as signalling molecules, hormones, growth factors, mechanical or chemical stress, mechanism of intracellular communication.