Hepatocyte growth factor is a potent angiogenic factor which stimulates endothelial cell motility and growth

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 629-641

  Bussolino, F ^a   Di Renzo, M F ^a   Ziche, M ^b   Bocchietto, E ^a   Olivero, M ^a   Naldini, L ^a   Gaudino, G ^a   Tamagnone, L ^a   Coffer, A ^c   Comoglio, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; ANIMALIA;

SCATTER FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMAN; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-MET; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UMBILICAL VEINS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0026722243     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.119.3.629     Document Type: Article

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