Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: The importance of changing cell state in development and disease

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1438-1449

  Acloque, Hervé ^a   Adams, Meghan S ^b   Fishwick, Katherine ^b   Bronner Fraser, Marianne ^b   Nieto, M Angela ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UVOMORULIN;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTRULATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MESENCHYME CELL; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS;

EID: 67650996280     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI38019     Document Type: Review

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