Vimentin induces changes in cell shape, motility, and adhesion during the epithelial to mesenchymal transition

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1838-1851

  Mendez, Melissa G ^a   Kojima, Shin Ichiro ^a,b   Goldman, Robert D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DESMOPLAKIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; NOCODAZOLE; PAXILLIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MESENCHYME CELL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; DESMOSOMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MESODERM; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIMENTIN;

EID: 77953484480     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-151639     Document Type: Article

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