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The presence of hepatocyte growth factor in the developing rat
1 Oct 1992
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Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), a heparin-binding polypeptide mitogen, stimulates DNA synthesis in adult rat and human hepatocytes and in several other cells of epithelial origin. Recently, it was determined that scatter factor (SF), a protein that has been shown to cause the dispersion and migration of epithelial cells in culture, is identical to HGF. Moreover, the receptor for HGF was identified as the product...
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