Complex networks orchestrate epithelial-mesenchymal transitions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-142

  Thiery, Jean Paul ^a   Sleeman, Jonathan P ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CADHERIN; CYTOKERATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; INTEGRIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MOLECULAR MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FIBROSIS; FROG; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GASTRULA; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANURA; DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33244463813     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1835     Document Type: Review

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