Snail overexpression induces an epithelial to mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cell-like properties in SCC9 cells

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 744-752

  Zhu, Li Fang ^a   Hu, Yong ^b   Yang, Cong Chong ^a   Xu, Xiao Hui ^a   Ning, Tian Yun ^a   Wang, Zi Lu ^a   Ye, Jin Hai ^a   Liu, Lai Kui ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cell; EMT; Oral squamous cell carcinoma; Overexpression; Snail

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; METASTASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84860264531     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2012.8     Document Type: Article

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