Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Tập 10 Số 7 - Trang 445-457 - 2009
Peter Friedl1,2, Darren Gilmour3
1Department of Cell Biology (283), Microscopical Imaging of the Cell, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. BOX 9101, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Rudolf Virchow Zentrum and Department for Dermatology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
3European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cell Biology and Biophysics, Heidelberg, Germany

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