Cancer cell motility: Lessons from migration in confined spaces

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 131-140

  Paul, Colin D ^a   Mistriotis, Panagiotis ^a   Konstantopoulos, Konstantinos ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AIR AND AIR RELATED PHENOMENA; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; FIBROBLAST; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

PROTEIN CDC42;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CONFINED SPACES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85001022254     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2016.123     Document Type: Review

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