Epithelial requirement for in vitro proliferation and xenograft growth and metastasis of MDA-MB-468 human breast cancer cells: oncogenic rather than tumor-suppressive role of E-cadherin

Abstract Background Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with downregulated E-cadherin and frequently with decreased proliferation. Proliferation may be restored in secondary metastases by mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET). We tested whether E-cadherin maintains epitheli...

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Main Authors: H. J. Hugo, N. P. A. D. Gunasinghe, B. G. Hollier, T. Tanaka, T. Blick, A. Toh, P. Hill, C. Gilles, M. Waltham, E. W. Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13058-017-0880-z