Slug and E-Cadherin: Stealth Accomplices?
During physiological epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), which is important for embryogenesis and wound healing, epithelial cells activate a program to remodel their structure and achieve a mesenchymal fate. In cancer cells, EMT confers increased invasiveness and tumor-initiating capacity, whic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmolb.2020.00138/full |