Localized and reversible TGFbeta signalling switches breast cancer cells from cohesive to single cell motility.

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Published in Nat Cell Biol on October 18, 2009

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Silvia Giampieri1, Cerys Manning, Steven Hooper, Louise Jones, Caroline S Hill, Erik Sahai

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1: Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory, CR-UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, UK.

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