## Background: A balance between urokinase-type plasminogen activator (upa) and its main inhibitor type-1 (pai-1) appears to be important for cancer invasive behavior. since upa/pai-1 system seems to be regulated by transforming growth factor beta1 (tgfbeta1) in different cell types, our aim was to
Thrombospondin and transforming growth factor-beta 1 increase expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells
β Scribed by Juan P. Arnoletti; Daniel Albo; Mark S. Granick; Mark P. Solomon; Analia Castiglioni; Vicki L. Rothman; George P. Tuszynski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 860 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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