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Hepatoma-derived growth factor is highly expressed in developing liver and promotes fetal hepatocyte proliferation

  1. Hirayuki Enomoto1,
  2. Kenya Yoshida1,
  3. Yoshihiko Kishima1,
  4. Taisei Kinoshita2,†,
  5. Mitsunari Yamamoto1,
  6. Allen D. Everett3,
  7. Atsushi Miyajima2,
  8. Hideji Nakamura1,*

Article first published online: 7 MAR 2007

DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840360629

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Hepatology

Hepatology

Volume 36, Issue 6, pages 1519–1527, December 2002

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Enomoto, H., Yoshida, K., Kishima, Y., Kinoshita, T., Yamamoto, M., Everett, A. D., Miyajima, A. and Nakamura, H. (2002), Hepatoma-derived growth factor is highly expressed in developing liver and promotes fetal hepatocyte proliferation. Hepatology, 36: 1519–1527. doi: 10.1002/hep.1840360629

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  1. 1

    Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

  2. 2

    Laboratory of Cellular Biosynthesis, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  3. 3

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA

  1. †

    RIGEL Inc., 240 East Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080

*Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2–2 Yamada-oka Suita, Osaka 565–0871, Japan. fax: (81) 6–6879–3839

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 7 MAR 2007
  2. Article first published online: 7 MAR 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 7 SEP 2002
  4. Manuscript Received: 19 FEB 2002

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