Protein Name | hepatocyte growth factor |
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Organism | Rattus norvegicus |
Gene ID | 24446 |
Gene Symbol | Hgf |
UniProt | P17945 (HGF_RAT) |
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Total Number of functionally related compound(s) :
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Total Number of Articles : 440 |
Description |
hepatocyte growth factor |
Gene Summary |
Enables growth factor activity. Involved in several processes, including animal organ regeneration; positive regulation of angiogenesis; and positive regulation of myelination. Located in extracellular space. Used to study brain infarction. Biomarker of cholangiocarcinoma. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including artery disease (multiple); autosomal recessive nonsyndromic deafness 39; eye disease (multiple); neuropathy (multiple); and scleroderma (multiple). Orthologous to human HGF (hepatocyte growth factor). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022] |
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