Topographic confinement of epithelial clusters induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in compliant matrices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nasrollahi, Samila ^a   Pathak, Amit ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BREAST EPITHELIUM CELL; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYDROGEL; POLARIZATION; RIGIDITY; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CADHERIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; VIMENTIN;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84953257181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18831     Document Type: Article

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