Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) or scatter factor (SF) is a paracrine cellular growth, motility and morphogenic factor. It is secreted by mesenchymal cells and targets and acts primarily upon epithelial cells and endothelial cells, but also acts on haemopoietic progenitor cells and T cells.

肝细胞生长因子（HGF）是作为一种能刺激肝细胞增殖的物质而发现的，后来发现HGF还能作用于上皮细胞、造血细胞、血管内皮细胞等多种细胞，是一种可调节多种细胞生长、运动和形态发生的多功能因子。 通过旁分泌或自分泌机制，借助上皮间质的相互作用，在胚胎发生、创伤愈合、血管发生、组织器官再生、形态发生和致癌作用等方面发挥重要作用。 HGF存在于动物和人体内多种组织和细胞中，主要来源于肝脏Kupffer细胞、内皮细胞、成纤维细胞、贮脂细胞、肺脏内皮细 …

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a pleiotropic cytokine composed of an α-chain and a β-chain, and these chains contain four kringle domains and a serine protease-like structure, respectively. The receptor for HGF was identified as the c-met proto-oncogene product of transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase.

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a pleiotropic cytokine that has been extensively studied over several decades, but was only recently recognized as a key player in mediating protection of many types of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

2015年4月1日 · Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a pleiotropic cytokine that has been extensively studied over several decades, but was only recently recognized as a key player in mediating protection of many types of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

2011年1月4日 · In the 1980s, the method for the cultivation of mature hepatocytes provided an opportunity for the discovery of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) as a protein that is structurally and functionally different from other growth factors.

Under normal conditions, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-induced activation of its cell surface receptor, the Met tyrosine kinase (TK), is tightly regulated by paracrine ligand delivery, ligand activation at the target cell surface, and ligand activated receptor internalization and degradation.

Here we summarize recent findings on the biology of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF, also known as scatter factor), focusing on its effects on developing neurons. HGF is both a chemoattractant...

2018年1月1日 · In 1984, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) was first reported as a potent mitogen of rat hepatocytes in a primary culture. The primary structure of HGF became evident with cDNA cloning in 1989, and HGF was simultaneously identified as a novel growth factor (Nakamura et al. 1989; Miyazawa et al. 1989).

Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) is an important humoral mediator of liver regeneration and related to molecular mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis via paracrine system involving its cellular receptor, c-met.