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Epithelial—mesenchymal and mesenchymal—epithelial transitions in carcinoma progression
6 Aug 2007
Abstract excerpt
Like a set of bookends, cellular, molecular, and genetic changes of the beginnings of life mirror those of one of the most common cause of death--metastatic cancer. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important change in cell phenotype which allows the escape of epithelial cells from the structural constraints imposed by tissue architecture, and was first recognized by Elizabeth Hay in the early to...
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