Study of the in vivo role of Snail in melanocyte stem cell homeostasis and melanoma during initiation and progression Ghent University
geen abstract
Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer arising from melanocytes, endowed with unique features of cellular plasticity. During the first years of my PhD, we have been studying different aspects of the melanocytic spectrum ranging from melanocyte development, melanocyte stem cell homeostasis and melanoma progression. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is the process in which epithelial cells lose their epithelial ...