Article
Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions in development and pathologies.
Current opinion in cell biology - 1 Dec 2003
Thiery Jean Paul
Abstract excerpt
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a fundamental process governing morphogenesis in multicellular organisms. This process is also reactivated in a variety of diseases including fibrosis and in the progression of carcinoma. The molecular mechanisms of EMT were primarily studied in epithelial cell lines, leading to the discovery of transduction pathways involved in the loss of epithelial cell polarity...
Topics
- Animals
- Carcinoma
- Cell Line
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- GTP Phosphohydrolases
- Humans
- Mesoderm
- Models, Biological
- Morphogenesis
- Phenotype
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
