Intercellular adhesion: Mechanisms for growth and metastasis of epithelial cancers

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-181

  Balzer, Eric M ^a,b   Konstantopoulos, Konstantinos ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM10 ENDOPEPTIDASE; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CLAUDIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTEGRIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; OCCLUDIN; SELECTIN; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA; CELL ADHESION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL INVASION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE SILENCING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84857086516     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.160     Document Type: Article

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