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The Role of Insulin-Like Growth Factors in the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
IGFs (insulin-like growth factors) are peptides known to stimulate a wide range of actions on different tissues. Indeed, IGFs can stimulate anabolism, acute metabolic effects as well as enhancing more chronic ...
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Regulation of Snail transcription during epithelial to mesenchymal transition of tumor cells
Expression of Snail transcriptional factor is a determinant in the acquisition of a mesenchymal phenotype by epithelial tumor cells. However, the regulation of the transcription of this gene is still unknown. ...
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Involvement of cadherins 7 and 20 in mouse embryogenesis and melanocyte transformation
We have determined the expression profiles of cdh7, and the related cdh20 during development. Both transcripts are found in the adult brain, but only cadherin-20 mRNA was detected during embryogenesis. In mouse e...