Liver fibrosis/cirrhosis is characterized by hyper‐accumulation of fibrous tissue components
and is commonly observed in later or terminal states of chronic hepatic diseases. In ongoing …

Estradiol-17β (E2) stimulates uterine and vaginal epithelial proliferation in vivo [1]. E2 also
plays a critical role in other aspects of uterine and vaginal growth and adult function, and it is …

We prepared a specific antagonist for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and designated it
HGF/NK4. HGF/NK4 is composed of N-terminal 447 amino acids of the α-chain of HGF, thus …

Serum from 398 myeloma patients at diagnosis and serial samples from 29 patients were
analysed for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF). HGF was elevated at diagnosis in 43% of …

The corneal epithelium is known to have a rapid self-renewing capacity. The major advance
in the field of cornead epithelial cell biology in the last decade is the establishment of the …

Partial hepatectomy triggers a variety of biological phenomena, which culminate in
regeneration of the liver mass. Hepatocyte proliferation is a major feature of the regenerating …

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a humoral mediator of epithelial-mesenchymal
interactions, acting on a variety of epithelial cells as mitogen, motogen, and morphogen …

Scatter Factors control a complex genetic program known as 'invasive growth'. HGF (Scatter
factor 1) and MSP (Scatter Factor 2) bind to tyrosine kinase receptors encoded by the proto …

We have examined whether the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)/c-met receptor-ligand pair is
expressed in freshly isolated and highly purified myeloma cells and whether HGF can be …

The ability of the liver to regenerate after resection has been known for many years. Two
reports from Germany in the late 1800s probably mark the introduction of the phenomenon …