Mechanical Control of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Cancer

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 527-554

  Przybyla, Laralynne ^a   Muncie, Jonathon M ^a,b   Weaver, Valerie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Mechanobiology; Metastasis; Microenvironment; Stem cells; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INTEGRIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CANCER GROWTH; CELL ADHESION; CELL FATE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FOCAL ADHESION; FORCE; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84990818438     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125150     Document Type: Review

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