Hepatocyte growth factor and c-MET are expressed in rat prepuberal testis

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3106-3113

  Catizone, A ^a   Ricci, G ^a   Arista, V ^a   Innocenzi, A ^a   Galdieri, M ^a,b,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Dip Istologia ed Embriologia Medica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TESTIS FUNCTION;

EID: 0033305171     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.7.6761     Document Type: Article

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