The transcription factor Snail controls epithelial-mesenchymal transitions by repressing E-cadherin expression

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 76-83

  Cano, Amparo ^a   Pérez Moreno, Mirna A ^a   Rodrigo, Isabel ^a,b   Locascio, Annamaria ^c   Blanco, María J ^c   Del Barrio, Marta G ^c   Portillo, Francisco ^a   Nieto, M Angela ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MESODERM; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0033784843     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000025     Document Type: Article

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