An in vitro model for assessment of the biological activity of hepatocyte growth factor

Growth Factors

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-40

  Nayeri, Fariba ^a   Holmgren Pettersson, Kajsa ^a   Perskvist, Nasrin ^a   Forsberg, Pia ^a   Peterson, Curt ^a   Sundqvist, Tommy ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity; Body fluids; HGF; In vitro; In vivo; Recombinant

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BODY FLUID; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEG ULCER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34247604006     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08977190600997200     Document Type: Article

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