Emerging multipotent aspects of hepatocyte growth factor

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 591-600

  Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

C met; Epithelial mesenchymal interactions; HGF; Morphogenesis; Organ regeneration; Organogenesis

Indexed keywords

MITOGENIC AGENT; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CANCER INVASION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MAMMARY GLAND; MESENCHYME; MESENCHYME CELL; METASTASIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; SKELETON; STROMA; TISSUE INDUCTION; TISSUE INTERACTION; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 0029985372     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021283     Document Type: Review

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