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SUBMITTER: Chei S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6779771 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chei Sungwoo S Oh Hyun-Ji HJ Song Ji-Hyeon JH Seo Young-Jin YJ Lee Kippeum K Lee Boo-Yong BY
Frontiers in oncology 20191001
Tumor metastasis is the end state of a multistep process that includes dissemination of tumor cells to distant organs and requires tumor cells to adapt to different tissue microenvironments. During metastasis, tumor cells undergo a morphological change known as transdifferentiation or the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In normal embryonic development, the EMT occurs in the context of morphogenesis in a variety of tissues. Over the course of this process, epithelial cells lose their ...[more]