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Article

Cellular Migration and Invasion Uncoupled: Increased Migration Is Not an Inexorable Consequence of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

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Pages 3486-3499 | Received 19 May 2014, Accepted 30 Jun 2014, Published online: 20 Mar 2023

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