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Role of the hepatocyte growth factor receptor, c-Met, in oncogenesis and potential for therapeutic inhibition.
Cytokine & growth factor reviews - 1 Feb 2002
Maulik Gautam, Shrikhande Amol, Kijima Takashi, Ma Patrick C, Morrison Paul T, Salgia Ravi
Abstract excerpt
Receptor tyrosine kinases have become important therapeutic targets for anti-neoplastic molecularly targeted therapies. c-Met is a receptor tyrosine kinase shown to be over-expressed and mutated in a variety of malignancies. Stimulation of c-Met via its ligand hepatocyte growth factor also known as scatter factor (HGF/SF), leads to a plethora of biological and biochemical effects in the cell. There has been...
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