EMT Subtype Influences Epithelial Plasticity and Mode of Cell Migration

Developmental Cell

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 681-695.e4

  Aiello, Nicole M ^a   Maddipati, Ravikanth ^a   Norgard, Robert J ^a   Balli, David ^a   Li, Jinyang ^a   Yuan, Salina ^a   Yamazoe, Taiji ^a   Black, Taylor ^a   Sahmoud, Amine ^a   Furth, Emma E ^b   Bar Sagi, Dafna ^c   Stanger, Ben Z ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

circulating tumor cells; collective migration; E cadherin; epithelial mesenchymal transition; lineage tracing; metastasis; pancreatic cancer; partial EMT; tumor cell clusters

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PLASTICITY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATIC DUCTAL CARCINOMA CELL LINE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PANCREAS TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR INVASION;

CADHERIN; E-CADHERIN PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PLASTICITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85048170471     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.05.027     Document Type: Article

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