Novartis Foundation Symposium 212 – Plasminogen Related Growth Factors

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Evolution of Vertebrate Fibrin Formation and the Process of its Dissolution; Evolution of Plasminogen-Related Growth Factors and their Receptors; Domain Structure and Interactions in Plasminogen; Structure and Function of Plasminogen: Reconstitution of Microplasminogen and Microplasmin from Isolated Fragments; Protein Engineering of HGF/SF; Met-HGF/SF: Tumorigenesis, Invasion and Metastasis; Signalling Through PRGF Receptors; Plasminogen/Plasmin as a Mediator of Extracellular Proteolysis; HGF/SF and Met in Chick Development; Essential Roles of Scatter Factor/Hepatocyte Growth Factor (SF/HGF) and the C-Met Receptor During Mouse Development; Action of Macrophage-Stimulating Protein (MSP) on Macrophages and Keratinocytes; HGF/SF in Angiogenesis; The Organotrophic Function of HGF and its Therapeutic Potential; Role of SF/Gab-1 in Morphogenesis and Metastasis of Mammary Epithelial Cells.