Hepatocyte growth factor and the kidney: It is not just for the liver

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 186, Issue , 1999, Pages 225-260

  Balkovetz, Daniel F ^a   Lipschutz, Joshua H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C met; Hepatocyte growth factor; Kidney development; Renal disease; Tubulogenesis

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

CELL MOTILITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER; MESENCHYME; MITOGENESIS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE INTERACTION; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIUM; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031785950     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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