Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: A mesodermal cell strategy for evolutive innovation in metazoans

Anatomical Record

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-351

  Pérez Pomares, José M ^a,b   Muñoz Chápuli, Ramón ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embryo; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Evolution; Mesoderm; Metazoa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS;

METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036830524     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10165     Document Type: Article

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