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Mechanism of the mesenchymal-epithelial transition and its relationship with metastatic tumor formation.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Dec 2011
Yao Dianbo, Dai Chaoliu, Peng Songlin
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Cancer metastasis consists of a sequential series of events, and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) are recognized as critical events for metastasis of carcinomas. A current area of focus is the histopathological similarity between primary and metastatic tumors, and MET at sites of metastases has been postulated to be part of the process of metastatic tumor...
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