Hepatocyte growth factor upregulates thymosin β4 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells

• Published in: Biochemical and biophysical research communications Vol. 296; no. 2; pp. 401 - 405
• Main Authors: Oh, In Suk, So, Sang Sup, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Kim, Hwan Gyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.08.2002
• Subjects: DD-PCR; HGF; HUVECs; MMP-2; Thymosin β4; MMP-2; Thymosin β4; HGF; HUVECs; DD-PCR

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a mesenchymal-derived cytokine. It exerts in vitro a motogenic effect on various target cells, which is displayed either by cell scattering, locomotion, and migration during the wound repair process of cultured cells, or invasiveness through the extracellular matrix...