The physiology and pathology of the EMT. Meeting on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

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Published in EMBO Rep on March 07, 2008

Authors

Hervé Acloque1, Jean Paul Thiery, M Angela Nieto

Author Affiliations

1: Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, CSIC-UMH, Apartado 18, San Juan de Alicante, 03550 Spain.

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