Urokinase plasminogen activator induces human smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation via distinct receptor-dependent and proteolysis-dependent mechanisms
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
- Vol. 195 (1/2) , 199-206
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006936623106
Abstract
In order to define the relative contribution of the proteolytic domain and the receptor-binding domain of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) toward its mitogenic properties we studied the effects...Keywords
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