Epithelial to mesenchymal transition in tumor cells as consequence of phenotypic instability

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  de Herreros, Antonio García ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

E cadherin; EMT; Self amplification; Snail1; Tumor instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030712262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2014.00071     Document Type: Article

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