Hepatocyte growth factor stimulates proliferation, migration, and lumen formation of human endometrial epithelial cells in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 936-942

  Sugawara, Junichi ^a   Fukaya, Takao ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Hidemune ^a   Yajima, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION;

ADULT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030885436     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.4.936     Document Type: Article

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