Function and regulation of production of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)

Folia Pharmacologica Japonica

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 287-294

  Gohda, Eiichi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C Met; Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF); Liver injury; Liver regeneration; Regulation of production

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CELL DNA; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE ANTIBODY; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH FACTOR; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RETINOIC ACID; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR ANTIBODY; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME CELL; MITOGENESIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE THERAPY; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RATS;

EID: 0036246327     PISSN: 00155691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1254/fpj.119.287     Document Type: Review

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