The front and rear of collective cell migration

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 97-109

  Mayor, Roberto ^a   Etienne Manneville, Sandrine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAC1 PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADHERENS JUNCTION; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR INVASION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84955726951     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.14     Document Type: Review

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