Possible role of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and activin A produced by the target organ in liver metastasis

Cancer Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 137-143

  Hyuga, Sumiko ^a   Kawasaki, Nana ^a   Hashimoto, Osamu ^a   Hyuga, Masashi ^a   Ohta, Miyako ^a   Yamagata, Sadako ^b   Yamagata, Tatsuya ^b   Hayakawa, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Japan Institute of Leather Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin A; Hepatocyte growth factor scatter factor; Metastasis; Motility

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; CELL RECEPTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; LIVER METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; INHIBINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034729354     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(00)00360-8     Document Type: Article

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