Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition: At the Crossroads of Development and Tumor Metastasis

Developmental Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 818-829

  Yang, Jing ^a   Weinberg, Robert A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBRONECTIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT11 PROTEIN;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DESMOSOME; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEART VALVE; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; METAZOON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECONDARY PALATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 44449144396     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.05.009     Document Type: Review

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