Cadherins in cancer: implications for invasion and metastasis

In order to understand the mechanisms of metastasis, one must first determine how cancer cells detach from primary tumors. It is known that cadherins are major cell-cell adhesion molecules in tumors as well as in normal tissues. The perturbation of cadherin function causes temporal or permanent disa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current opinion in cell biology 1993-10, Vol.5 (5), p.806-811
1. Verfasser:	Takeichi, Masatoshi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Cadherins - physiology Cytoskeleton - physiology Humans Neoplasm Invasiveness Neoplasm Metastasis Neoplasms - pathology Tumor Cells, Cultured
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