A natural hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor autocrine loop in myoblast cells and the effect of the constitutive met kinase activation on myogenic differentiation

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1057-1068

  Anastasi, Sergio ^a   Giordano, Silvia ^b   Sthandier, Olga ^a   Gambarotta, Giovanna ^b   Maione, Rossella ^a   Comoglio, Paolo ^b   Amati, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOGS; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES, DISTAL; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERATOCARCINOMA; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031005766     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.5.1057     Document Type: Article

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