Modifications of the hepatocyte growth factor/c-met pathway by constitutive expression of transforming growth factor-α in rat liver epithelial cells

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 244-255

  Presnell, Sharon C ^a   Stolz, Donna B ^b   Mars, Wendy M ^b   Jo, Minji ^b   Michalopoulos, George K ^b   Strom, Stephen C ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross talk; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Receptor phosphorylation; Transactivation

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MITOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031011662     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199704)18:4<244::AID-MC8>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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