Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor-Met signaling in tumorigenicity and invasion/metastasis

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 505-513

  Jeffers, Michael ^a   Rong, Sing ^a,b   Vande Woude, George F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatocyte growth factor scatter factor; Invasion; Met; Metastasis; Tumorigenicity

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; UROKINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OSTEOSARCOMA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029816082     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00204976     Document Type: Review

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