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Categories: Tissue engineering, Cancer research, Respiratory diseases, Kidney diseases, Diseases of liver
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epithelial to mesenchymal transition  epithelial–mesenchymal transition  EMT  Epithelial-mesenchymal transformation  epithelial-mesenchymal transition
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The epithelial–mesenchymal transition is a process by which epithelial cells lose their cell polarity and cell–cell adhesion, and gain migratory and invasive properties to become mesenchymal stem cells; these are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types. Wikipedia
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