Presence of urokinase in serum-free primary rat hepatocyte cultures and its role in activating hepatocyte growth factor

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2837-2843

  Mars, Wendy M ^a   Kim, Tae Hyoung ^a   Stolz, Donna Beer ^a   Liu, Meng Lun ^a   Michalopoulos, George K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UROKINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GROWTH REGULATION; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LIVER; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0029929227     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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