It is therefore not surprising that more recent work points to a greater flexibility in this transitional process, and cells are no longer thought to oscillate between the full epithelial and full mesenchymal states, but rather, they move through a spectrum of intermediary phases。（细胞不再被认为在完整的上皮状态和完整的间充质状态之间振荡，而是通过一系列中间阶段）
This purported plasticity means that cells could linger in intermediary stages and that they may frequently undergo a partial EMT program。（这种所谓的可塑性意味着细胞可以停留在中间阶段，并且它们可能经常经历部分EMT程序）
A partial EMT state has been noted in association with many developmental, wound healing, fibrosis, and cancer processes evident through the existence of intermediate hybrid epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes
从上皮标志物，E-cad，间质标志物N-cad，vimentin等还有snail等来评判EMT是把EMT简单化了，在许多疾病中，比如创伤愈合，纤维化，癌症进程中的EMT叫partial EMT，也就是说部分EMT，而处在混合表型的细胞明显存在，而这种表型细胞的存在使得EMT变得更加灵活动态
Even when a mesenchymal trait is gained, there is still much heterogeneity in terms of the mesenchymal characteristic induced. In an analysis of 43 ovarian cancer cell lines, only 50% of cells with an intermediate phenotype (co-expressing cytokeratin and vimentin) induced N-cadherin.
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