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Multilayer control of the EMT master regulators.
Oncogene - 3 Apr 2014
Zheng H, Kang Y
Abstract excerpt
Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-associated death in most tumor types. Metastatic dissemination of cancer cells from the primary tumor is believed to be initiated by the reactivation of an embryonic development program referred to as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), whereby epithelial cells lose apicobasal polarity and cell-cell contacts, and gain mesenchymal phenotypes with increased migratory...
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