Expression of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and its receptor, MET, suggests roles in human embryonic organogenesis

Pediatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 657-665

  Kolatsi Joannou, Maria ^a   Moore, Rachel ^a   Winyard, Paul J D ^a   Woolf, Adrian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0030932964     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199705000-00010     Document Type: Article

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