Sustained expression of naked plasmid DNA encoding hepatocyte growth factor in mice promotes liver and overall body growth

Hepatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 848-859

  Yang, Junwei ^a   Chen, Shiping ^b   Huang, Leaf ^c   Michalopoulos, George K ^a   Liu, Youhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0035080761     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.23438     Document Type: Article

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