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Roles of genetic and microenvironmental factors in cancer epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and therapeutic implication.
Experimental cell research - 15 Sept 2018
Yang Liuqi, Shang Zhengling, Long Shiqi, Wang Nianxue, Shan Ge, Zhang Ruya
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Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process in which epithelial cells lose their cell-cell contacts resulting in the formation of mesenchymal cells with migratory properties. Increasing evidence indicate EMT plays a key role in the invasion, metastasis and therapeutic resistance of cancer and maintenance of the phenotype of cancer stem cells (CSCs), which makes the prognosis of patients worse. The...
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