Article
Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor is essential for liver development.
Nature - 23 Feb 1995
Schmidt C, Bladt F, Goedecke S, Brinkmann V, Zschiesche W, Sharpe M, Gherardi E, Birchmeier C
Abstract excerpt
Polypeptide growth factors are important effectors of cell growth and differentiation in vitro and are thought to be critical for processes such as specification of cell fate, tissue growth and organogenesis in vivo. Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor (SF/HGF) is the prototype of an emerging family of growth factors that resemble in their domain structure and mechanism of activation the blood proteinase...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cells, Cultured
- Epithelium
- Erythropoiesis
- Female
- Fetal Death
- Genotype
- Hepatocyte Growth Factor
- Liver
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL