Epithelial Breast Cancer Cells Following Treatment With an EMT Activator (IMAGE)

University of Basel

Epithelial Breast Cancer Cells Following Treatment With an EMT Activator

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These are epithelial breast cancer cells following treatment with an EMT activator: they adopt the properties of mesenchymal cells; in addition, individual cells break away from the cell cluster and migrate into the surrounding tissue. Blue: nucleus, green: paxillin (adhesion protein), red: actin (cytoskeleton).

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(Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine)

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