Establishment of a functional HGF/C-MET autocrine loop in spontaneous transformants of WB-F344 rat liver stem-like cells

Hepatology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1253-1259

  Presnell, Sharon C ^a   Hooth, Michelle J ^a,b   Borchert, Kristen M ^a   Coleman, William B ^a,b   Grisham, Joe W ^a   Smith, Gary J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Curriculum in Neurobiology   (United States)

^c CB#7525 BBB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; LIVER CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DNA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LIVER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031759397     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510280513     Document Type: Article

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