High tissue content of urokinase plasmin
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Christer Borgfeldt; Bertil Casslén; Chun-Li Liu; Stefan Hansson; Ingegerd Lecand
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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Urokinase plasminogen activator (u-PA) plays a pivotal role in tissue degradation during tumor spread and metastasis. We have quantitated u-PA in tissue homogenates of 31 serous ovarian tumors and localized u-PA and its mRNA in tissue sections of 26 serous ovarian tumors. The content of u-PA was hig