NK4, a four-kringle antagonist of HGF, inhibits spreading and invasion of human pancreatic cancer cells

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 864-873

  Maehara, N ^a,b   Matsumoto, K ^a   Kuba, K ^a   Mizumoto, K ^b   Tanaka, M ^b   Nakamura, T ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Met; HGF; HGF antagonist; NK4; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KRINGLE DOMAIN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MITOGENS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035937364     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1682     Document Type: Article

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