Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor overexpression induces growth, abnormal development, and tumor formation in transgenic mouse livers

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1513-1523

  Sakata, Hiromi ^a   Takayama, Hisashi ^a   Sharp, Richard ^a   Rubin, Jeffrey S ^a   Merlino, Glenn ^a   LaRochelle, William J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE P60; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIVER; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, VESICULAR TRANSPORT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; DNA; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE 1; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SIZE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS PP60(C-SRC); RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029910845     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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