Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: Insights from development

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 3471-3486

  Lim, Jormay ^a   Thiery, Jean Paul ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Gastrulation; Heart morphogenesis; Neural crest

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOB GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORION VILLUS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION; EPICARDIUM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GASTRULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; HEART; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MESODERM; METASTASIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE EMBRYO; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GASTRULATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEA URCHINS;

EID: 84865839326     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.071209     Document Type: Review

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