Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), an endogenous pulmotrophic regulator, for the rescue of acute and chronic lung diseases

Current Signal Transduction Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-220

  Mizuno, Shinya ^a   Ohnishi, Hiroyuki ^b   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Met; HGF; Lung regeneration; Pulmonary disease; Self repair system

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LIVER DISEASE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG MECHANISM; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPIDOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEPTIC HEPATITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79957937990     PISSN: 15743624     EISSN: 15743624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157436211795659946     Document Type: Article

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