Differential expression of the keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) and KGF receptor genes in human vascular smooth muscle cells and arteries

The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: a perspective for the 1990s

1993 • 10,730 citations

Receptor Specificity of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Family

1996 • 1,871 citations

Structural and Functional Diversity in the FGf Receptor Multigene Family

1992 • 1,262 citations

Human KGF is FGF-Related with Properties of a Paracrine Effector of Epithelial Cell Growth

1989 • 989 citations

The Intima

1995 • 984 citations

Cell Biology of Atherosclerosis

1995 • 982 citations

Purification and characterization of a newly identified growth factor specific for epithelial cells.

1989 • 842 citations

Determination of ligand-binding specificity by alternative splicing: two distinct growth factor receptors encoded by a single gene.

1992 • 760 citations

Role of basic fibroblast growth factor in vascular lesion formation.

1991 • 521 citations

Expression cDNA Cloning of the KGF Receptor by Creation of a Transforming Autocrine Loop

1991 • 427 citations

The human fibroblast growth factor receptor genes: a common structural arrangement underlies the mechanisms for generating receptor forms that differ in their third immunoglobulin domain.

1991 • 406 citations

Recombinant fibroblast growth factor-1 promotes intimal hyperplasia and angiogenesis in arteries in vivo

1993 • 367 citations

Keratinocyte growth factor

1995 • 321 citations

Keratinocyte growth factor and hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor are heparin-binding growth factors for alveolar type II cells in fibroblast-conditioned medium.

1993 • 313 citations

Fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 3. Alternative splicing in immunoglobulin-like domain III creates a receptor highly specific for acidic FGF/FGF-1

1994 • 301 citations

Pattern of keratinocyte growth factor and keratinocyte growth factor receptor expression during mouse fetal development suggests a role in mediating morphogenetic mesenchymal‐epithelial interactions

1995 • 277 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor enhances the coupling of intimal hyperplasia and proliferation of vasa vasorum in injured rat arteries.

1992 • 242 citations

BALB and kirsten murine sarcoma viruses alter growth and differentiation of EGF-dependent BALB/c mouse epidermal keratinocyte lines

1983 • 224 citations

Endothelin-1 and Endothelin Receptor mRNA Expression in Normal and Atherosclerotic Human Arteries

1993 • 218 citations

Regulation of keratinocyte growth factor gene expression by interleukin 1.

1994 • 217 citations

Of Worms and Men: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) and FGF Receptor Families

1997 • 211 citations

Large induction of keratinocyte growth factor expression by serum growth factors and pro-inflammatory cytokines in cultured fibroblasts.

1994 • 203 citations

Distinct patterns of expression of fibroblast growth factors and their receptors in human atheroma and nonatherosclerotic arteries. Association of acidic FGF with plaque microvessels and macrophages.

1993 • 194 citations

Characterization of the receptor for keratinocyte growth factor. Evidence for multiple fibroblast growth factor receptors.

1990 • 187 citations

Progesterone-dependent expression of keratinocyte growth factor mRNA in stromal cells of the primate endometrium: keratinocyte growth factor as a progestomedin.

1994 • 182 citations

Growth Factor Effects on Cells of the Vascular Wall: A Survey

1993 • 166 citations

A confined variable region confers ligand specificity on fibroblast growth factor receptors: implications for the origin of the immunoglobulin fold.

1992 • 165 citations

Smooth muscle cell abundance and fibroblast growth factors in coronary lesions of patients with nonfatal unstable angina. A clue to the mechanism of transformation from the stable to the unstable clinical state.

1993 • 164 citations

Expression of basic and acidic fibroblast growth factors and their receptor in normal and atherosclerotic human arteries

1993 • 104 citations

A novel form of FGF receptor‐3 using an alternative exon in the immunoglobulin domain III

1993 • 99 citations

Expression of biologically active recombinant keratinocyte growth factor. Structure/function analysis of amino-terminal truncation mutants.

1993 • 96 citations

Proposed roles for growth factors in mediating smooth muscle proliferation in vascular pathologies

1993 • 94 citations

Vascular response to basic fibroblast growth factor when infused onto the normal adventitia or into the injured media of the rat carotid artery.

1991 • 92 citations

SV40 T antigen induction and transformation in human fibroblast cell strains

1968 • 88 citations

Interleukin 1 regulates heparin-binding growth factor 2 gene expression in vascular smooth muscle cells.

1991 • 76 citations

Complete sequence of a human receptor for acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors

1990 • 68 citations

Multiple growth factors are associated with lesions of atherosclerosis: Specificity or redundancy?

1996 • 62 citations

A keratinocyte growth factor receptor-derived peptide antagonist identifies part of the ligand binding site

1993 • 61 citations

Glucocorticoids inhibit keratinocyte growth factor production in primary dermal fibroblasts.

1996 • 60 citations

Cell proliferation in cancer : regulatory mechanisms of neoplastic cell growth

1996 • 49 citations

The Predominant Form of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Expressed by Proliferating Human Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells in Culture Is Type I

1994 • 35 citations

Smooth muscle cell and endothelial cell growth factors

1993 • 31 citations

Postnatal regulation of fibroblast growth factor ligand and receptor gene expression in rat thoracic aorta.

1996 • 11 citations

Spleen‐derived growth factor, SDGF‐3, is identified as keratinocyte growth factor (KGF)

1993 • 11 citations