Adhesion in mammary development: Novel roles for E-cadherin in individual and collective cell migration

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 353-382

  Shamir, Eliah R ^a   Ewald, Andrew J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Breast cancer; Cadherin switch; E cadherin; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Mammary epithelium; Metastasis; P cadherin

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN;

ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAMMARY GLAND; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84926153078     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2014.12.001     Document Type: Chapter

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