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A mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) is a reversible biological process that involves the transition from motile, multipolar or spindle-shaped mesenchymal cells to planar arrays of polarized cells called epithelia. MET is the reverse process of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and it has been shown to occur in normal development, induced pluripotent stem cell reprogramming, [1] cancer metastasis [2] and wound healing.[ 3]
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MET is believed to participate in the establishment and stabilization of distant metastases by allowing cancerous cells to regain epithelial properties a…