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The role of the E-cadherin/catenin complex in gastrointestinal cancer.
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
Debruyne P, Vermeulen S, Mareel M
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is a genetic disease. The unstable genome of cancer cells causes tumour progression through multiple alterations in suppressor and promoter genes, leading to loss of homeostatic and gain of oncogenic functions. Invasion is the critical step in the acquisition of malignancy. It implicates a continuous molecular conversation of the cancer cells with other cells and with the extracellular matrix in which...
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