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PTK7 marks the first human developmental EMT in vitro.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Chan David N, Azghadi Soheila F, Feng Jun, Lowry William E
Abstract excerpt
Epithelial to mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) are thought to be essential to generate diversity of tissues during early fetal development, but these events are essentially impossible to study at the molecular level in vivo in humans. The first EMT event that has been described morphologically in human development occurs just prior to generation of the primitive streak. Because human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)...
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