The outgrowth of micrometastases is enabled by the formation of filopodium-like protrusions.

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Published in Cancer Discov on May 18, 2012

Authors

Tsukasa Shibue1, Mary W Brooks, M Fatih Inan, Ferenc Reinhardt, Robert A Weinberg

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1: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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