Epithelial or mesenchymal: Where to draw the line

BioScience Trends

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 130-142

  Chai, Jianyuan ^a,b   Modak, Cristina ^a   Mouazzen, Wasim ^a   Narvaez, Reinier ^a   Pham, Jennifer ^a  

^a VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMT; Epithelial cell; Mesenchymal cell; Molecular marker

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MESODERM; METABOLISM; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MESODERM; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 77957089621     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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