HGF/NK4 is a specific antagonist for pleiotrophic actions of hepatocyte growth factor
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- 22 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 420 (1), 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01475-0
Abstract
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 contains the N‐terminal h...Keywords
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