Autocrine growth regulation of W12 and GCA cells in culture

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......media contained autocrine growth factors, which...fibroblast growth factor(s); HGF: hepatocyte growth factor; IGF(s): insulin-like growth factor(s); MIS: Mullerian...polypeptide growth factor(s) ; PSMF: phenylmethylsulfonyl...transforming growth ...

Topography of amphiregulin expression in cultured human keratinocytes:...

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......the signaling of amphiregulin, a heparinbinding autocrine growth factor, through the epidermal growth factor receptor...the cellular phenotype (Nakamura et al., 1995). Autocrine growth factors and their specific receptors have long...

Growth factor predicts cancer's spread.

Science News;  March 5, 1994 ;     473 words ......homing in on urinary concentrations of a growth factor involved in cancer's deadly spread...that a peptide called basic fibroblast growth factor could trigger the beneficial growth...29/94, p.71). The dark side of this growth factor, and others like it, is that they also...

Factors Affecting Growth Factor Activity in Goat Milk

Journal of Dairy Science;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......collect milk with consistently high growth factor activity. Therefore, we investigated the factors affecting growth factor activity in goat milk. Among the...from Nubian goats had the highest growth factor activity. Tight-junction leakage...

Man's heart given chance to grow its own bypass St. Francis Hospital tests...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 18, 1998 ;     624 words ......has injected a genetically engineered growth factor into a 72-year-old man's heart to help...the prospect that the gene-engineered growth factor would grow new blood vessels in the...Kipshidze, injected a vascular endothelial growth factor with the expectation that it would...

Preformed oligomeric epidermal growth factor receptors undergo an...

Biophysical Journal;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......reveal aspects of the mechanism of signal transduction by epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR). The superpositions of epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-a (TGFa) and an antibody fragment (29.1) to the carbohydrate extremity...

Do angioenesis and growth factor expression predict prognosis of...

The American Surgeon;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......relationship between angiogenesis score and growth factor expression with tumor size, histology, degree...also performed for vascular endothelial growth factor and transforming growth factor a. Twenty normal esophageal specimens served...

Growth factor inhibitors market to triple in coming years.

M2 Presswire;  March 24, 2004 ;     499 words ......PRESSWIRE-24 March 2004-MarketResearch.com: Growth factor inhibitors market to triple in coming...released today by Kalorama Information. Growth factor inhibitors have application in a wide...dermatology. According to the study, Growth Factor Inhibitors: Market Opportunities for...

Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor and its ligands in chronic...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) system plays a crucial role in mucus...the localization of EGF-R and its ligands (epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor a) in the epithelia of sinuses with chronic sinusitis...

Biology of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor and Its Involvement in Disease

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is mainly believed to be...malignancies. Platelet-derived growth factor is synthesized by many different...1241-1257 bFGF = basic fibroblast growth factor; CMML = chronic myelomonocytic...

BioSurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. Licenses Brookhaven Lab's Novel...

PR Newswire;  January 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......exclusive worldwide license to a novel growth factor technology developed by scientists...factors, including basic fibroblast growth factor for use in wound healing and radiation...well as other applications. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) refers to a family of proteins...

Vascular Growth Factor and Angiogenesis

British Journal of Biomedical Science;  January 1, 2000 ;     322 words ...Vascular Growth Factor and Angiogenesis L. Claesson-Welsh (ed...for new therapeutic interventions). The growth factor currently receiving the most attention is vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), hence the current slim volume...

Speeding up wound healing the EGF way. (epidermal growth factor)

Science News;  July 15, 1989 ;     457 words ......heal faster when treated with epidermal growth factor (EGF), according to a new study. The finding...growth stimulants, including fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta, to speed dermal wound healing. In...

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists increase follicular fluid...

Gynecological Endocrinology;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......follicular fluid (FF) insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and FF vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels. Sixty women undergoing...luteinizing hormone, vascular endothelial growth factor, insulin-like growth factor-I Introduction...

Vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor in...

Gynecological Endocrinology;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......evaluate of levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in serum and follicular fluid...controls. bFGF seems to be an FSH-dependent growth factor and its levels in follicular fluid are...