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What Makes Epithelial Cells Change Their Identity?

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What Makes Epithelial Cells Change Their Identity?

During development and during pathological processes in the adult, cells are constantly changing their function. One, well-characterized, cellular transition that occurs during development, as well as during wound healing, tissue fibrosis, and tumor metastasis, is the transition from an epithelial cell to a mesenchymal cell (often a fibroblast).
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