Crosstalk between critical cell-signaling pathways holds clues to tumor invasion and metastasis

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Two signaling pathways essential to normal human development the Wnt/Wingless and epidermal growth factor receptor pathways interact in ways that can promote tumor cell invasion and metastasis, researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the November 25 issue of Molecular Cell.

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