Modeling the Transitions between Collective and Solitary Migration Phenotypes in Cancer Metastasis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Huang, Bin ^a,b   Jolly, Mohit Kumar ^a   Lu, Mingyang ^a   Tsarfaty, Ilan ^c   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a,c,d   Onuchic, José N ^a,b,d  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MIRN200 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN34 MICRORNA, HUMAN; RNA; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, NEOPLASM;

EID: 84948983515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17379     Document Type: Article

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