Abstract:Cell migration is an important process occurring during normal animal development but also in the early stages of metastatic cancer when cells invasively migrate out of the primary tumor. It is therefore likely that some of the same genes function in both migrations. Although transcriptional profiling has identified many genes differentially expressed between metastases and primary tumors, we do not understand the function of most of these genes in either normal or disease states. Our goal has been to identify… Show more
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