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Stability and mean residence times for hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype.
Physical biology - 29 Jan 2019
Biswas Kuheli, Jolly Mohit Kumar, Ghosh Anandamohan
Abstract excerpt
Cancer metastasis and drug resistance remain unsolved clinical challenges. A phenotypic transition that is often implicated in both these processes is epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) during which epithelial cells weaken their cell-cell adhesion and gain traits of migration and invasion, typical of mesenchymal cells. However, recent studies indicate that apart from these two states, cells can also exist in...
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