ALCAM and neoplasm: Although not significantly different, the expression of genes encoding for NCAM1 (CD56), a neuronal cellular adhesion molecule that is described as a signal transducer for the regulation of cell growth, migration, proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation [55] and reflects pathological features of tumor cells [35], as well as additional EMT markers such as ALCAM, ITGB1 and ITGA6 [55,56,57] were also differentially expressed in cmHsp70.1 bead-isolated CECs.