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. 2009 Oct;85(8):314–323. doi: 10.2183/pjab.85.314

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Processes of EMT and MET. During the process of EMT, epithelial cells expressing E-cadherin and claudin-1 differentiate into mesenchymal cells expressing N-cadherin, SMA, and FSP1. MET is the inverse process of EMT, in which mesenchymal cells differentiate into epithelial cells (Modified from R.A. Saito et al., Ref. 58).