Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 445-457

  Friedl, Peter ^a,b   Gilmour, Darren ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CADHERIN; MYOSIN;

ACCESSORY CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL REGENERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DECISION MAKING; EPIDERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FORCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMARY GLAND; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WOUND HEALING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; REGENERATION;

EID: 67649528138     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2720     Document Type: Review

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