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Hepatocyte Growth Factor Stimulates Trophoblast Invasion: A Potential Mechanism for Abnormal Placentation in Preeclampsia1
1 Nov 1999
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Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a cytokine that is produced in the placental villous core and acts in a paracrine manner on trophoblasts that express the HGF receptor Met. Because HGF stimulates the invasion of many epithelial cell types, villous core HGF could regulate placental trophoblast invasion. As preeclampsia is characterized by inadequate trophoblast invasion, we investigated the hypothesis that...
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