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N-cadherin

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  • Precancerous growth in a human colon
    cancer
    / Invasion and metastasis

    …cell-to-cell adhesion in epithelium, and N-cadherin, which favors cell migration, have been found to be under expressed and overexpressed in invading cancer cells. In addition, a series of important control circuits that operate at the cellular level during the normal development of the embryo and in wound healing are exploited…

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    …cell-to-cell adhesion in epithelium, and N-cadherin, which favors cell migration, have been found to be under expressed and overexpressed in invading cancer cells. In addition, a series of important control circuits that operate at the cellular level during the normal development of the embryo and in wound healing are exploited…

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