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Metastasis in Motion: Part 1

Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis






Figure 1. This movie clip is an animation of the early steps in the metastatic cascade. It depicts a normal cell changing to a tumor cell, invading through the basement membrane, migrating away from the original tumor toward a blood vessel, and intravasating into the blood vessel where it is carried away by normal blood flow.

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