Detection of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor receptor (c-Met) in axillary drainage after operations for breast cancer using reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction

Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor is essential for liver development

1995 • 1,398 citations

Essential role for the c-met receptor in the migration of myogenic precursor cells into the limb bud

1995 • 1,278 citations

Regulation of Scatter Factor/Hepatocyte Growth Factor Responses by Ras, Rac, and Rho in MDCK Cells

1995 • 547 citations

Detection of minimal residual disease in acute leukemia: methodologic advances and clinical significance [see comments]

1995 • 452 citations

Karnofsky Memorial Lecture. Natural history of small breast cancers.

1994 • 415 citations

Prognostic importance of occult axillary lymph node micrometastases from breast cancers

1990 • 385 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor induces tyrosine phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (p125FAK) and promotes migration and invasion by oral squamous cell carcinoma cells.

1994 • 320 citations

Tumorigenicity of the met proto-oncogene and the gene for hepatocyte growth factor.

1992 • 316 citations

Immunoreactive hepatocyte growth factor is a strong and independent predictor of recurrence and survival in human breast cancer.

1994 • 301 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor—Met signaling in tumorigenicity and invasion/metastasis

1996 • 277 citations

Detection of breast cancer micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes by using polymerase chain reaction.

1994 • 271 citations

Coexpression of hepatocyte growth factor and receptor (Met) in human breast carcinoma.

1996 • 240 citations

Immunohistochemical detection of steroid receptors in breast cancer: a working protocol

2000 • 190 citations

Sensitive detection of rare circulating neuroblastoma cells by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.

1992 • 190 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor signalling stimulates hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) activity in HepG2 hepatoma cells

2001 • 178 citations

rac p21 is involved in insulin-induced membrane ruffling and rho p21 is involved in hepatocyte growth factor- and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced membrane ruffling in KB cells.

1994 • 171 citations

Expression of scatter factor and c-met receptor in benign and malignant breast tissue.

1997 • 164 citations

Detection of malignant bone tumors: MR imaging vs scintigraphy.

1990 • 162 citations

Transfer of motogenic and invasive response to scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor by transfection of human MET protooncogene.

1993 • 159 citations

Inhibition of growth, invasion, and metastasis of human pancreatic carcinoma cells by NK4 in an orthotopic mouse model.

2001 • 151 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor induces colonic cancer cell invasiveness via enhanced motility and protease overproduction. Evidence for PI3 kinase and PKC involvement

2001 • 118 citations

Molecular detection of cancer cells in bone marrow and peripheral blood of patients with operable breast cancer. Comparison of CK19, MUC1 and CEA using RT-PCR

2000 • 106 citations

Expression of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, its activator, inhibitors and the c-Met receptor in human cancer cells.

2001 • 99 citations

The role of hepatocyte growth factor (scatter factor) in epithelial–mesenchymal transition and breast cancer

2002 • 93 citations

A comparative analysis of three different techniques for the detection of breast cancer cells in bone marrow

1991 • 91 citations

Scatter factor modulates the metastatic phenotype of the EMT6 mouse mammary tumor

1994 • 88 citations

Bone marrow metastases. A review

1994 • 84 citations

Tumorigenicity of the met Proto-Oncogene and the Gene for Hepatocyte Growth Factor

1992 • 83 citations

Patterns of metastasis and natural courses of breast carcinoma

1985 • 71 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor expression in human mammary epithelium.

1994 • 70 citations

mRNA markers of breast cancer nodal metastases: comparison between mammaglobin and carcinoembryonic antigen in 248 patients

2001 • 46 citations

Prognostic importance of occult axillary lymph node micrometastases from breast cancers. International (Ludwig) Breast Cancer Study Group.

1990 • 45 citations

Serum concentration of hepatocyte growth factor in patients with metastatic breast cancer

1998 • 42 citations

rac p21 Is Involved in Insulin-Induced Membrane Ruffling and rho p21 Is Involved in Hepatocyte Growth Factor- and 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-Acetate (TPA)-Induced Membrane Ruffling in KB Cells

1994 • 39 citations

Altered gene expression pattern in cultured human breast cancer cells treated with hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor in the setting of DNA damage.

2001 • 38 citations

The clinical significance of micrometastases and molecular metastases

2001 • 32 citations

Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor Is Implicated in the Mode of Stromal Invasion of Uterine Squamous Cervical Cancer

2001 • 28 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) protects c-met-expressing Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines from apoptotic death induced by DNA damaging agents

2001 • 17 citations

HGF upregulates and modifies subcellular distribution of proteins in colon cancer cell enterocytic differentiation

2001 • 13 citations

DETECTION OF MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE IN ACUTE LEUKEMIAS: METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND CLINICAL SIGNIF-ICANCE

1995 • 12 citations

Detection of breast cancer micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

1993 • 12 citations

PATTERNS OF METASTASIS AND NATURAL COURSES OF BREAST CARCINOMA

1994 • 4 citations