Article
Met overexpression confers HGF-dependent invasive phenotype to human thyroid carcinoma cells in vitro.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Sept 1999
de Luca A, Arena N, Sena L M, Medico E
Abstract excerpt
The proto-oncogene c-MET encodes the tyrosine kinase receptor for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), a pleiotropic cytokine controlling growth, survival, motility, invasive migration, and differentiation of epithelial cells. Like several other epithelial neoplasms, thyroid carcinomas have been found to overexpress c-MET at both the mRNA and protein level. The biological relevance of Met overexpression to thyroid...
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