Diversity in the molecular and cellular strategies of epithelium-to- mesenchyme transitions: Insights from the neural crest

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 458-482

  Duband, Jean Loup ^a,b  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cadherin switch; Embryonic development; Epithelium to mesenchyme transition; Neural crest; Neurulation; Snail transcription factors; Zeb transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; ECTODERM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956473417     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cam.4.3.12501     Document Type: Review

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