Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and receptor (c-met) in normal and malignant astrocytic cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 A, 1999, Pages 1635-1640

  Welch, William C ^a,d   Kornblith, Paul L ^b   Michalopoulos, George K ^a   Petersen, Bryon E ^a   Beedle, Ari ^a   Gollin, Susanne M ^e   Goldfarb, Ronald H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOGENESIS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND MESSENGER; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0032775062     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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