Proteolytic activation of latent transforming growth factor-beta from fibroblast-conditioned medium.

Plasminogen Activators, Tissue Degradation, and Cancer

1985 • 2,584 citations

Fluorescence probe measurement of the intralysosomal pH in living cells and the perturbation of pH by various agents.

1978 • 2,146 citations

Human transforming growth factor-β complementary DNA sequence and expression in normal and transformed cells

1985 • 1,687 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta in human platelets. Identification of a major storage site, purification, and characterization.

1983 • 1,613 citations

Growth factors from murine sarcoma virus-transformed cells.

1978 • 1,457 citations

New class of transforming growth factors potentiated by epidermal growth factor: isolation from non-neoplastic tissues.

1981 • 925 citations

Growth Inhibitor from BSC-1 Cells Closely Related to Platelet Type β Transforming Growth Factor

1984 • 779 citations

The transforming growth factor-β system, a complex pattern of cross-reactive ligands and receptors

1987 • 710 citations

Rat Transforming Growth Factor Type 1: Structure and Relation to Epidermal Growth Factor

1984 • 666 citations

Transforming growth factor production by chemically transformed cells.

1981 • 506 citations

The murine transforming growth factor-beta precursor.

1986 • 492 citations

Characterization of a membrane receptor for transforming growth factor-beta in normal rat kidney fibroblasts.

1984 • 477 citations

Enhanced production and extracellular deposition of the endothelial-type plasminogen activator inhibitor in cultured human lung fibroblasts by transforming growth factor-beta.

1986 • 443 citations

Conversion of a high molecular weight latent β-TGF from chicken embryo fibroblasts into a low molecular weight active β-TGF under acidic conditions

1985 • 366 citations

Cellular receptors for type beta transforming growth factor. Ligand binding and affinity labeling in human and rodent cell lines.

1985 • 344 citations

Normal embryo fibroblasts release transforming growth factors in a latent form

1984 • 336 citations

Serum contains a platelet-derived transforming growth factor.

1982 • 330 citations

β-Transforming Growth Factor is stored in human blood platelets as a latent high molecular weight complex

1986 • 241 citations

Specific binding to cultured cells of 125I-labeled type beta transforming growth factor from human platelets.

1984 • 212 citations

Isolation from murine sarcoma cells of novel transforming growth factors potentiated by EGF

1982 • 206 citations

Cellular distribution of type I and type II receptors for transforming growth factor-beta.

1986 • 203 citations

ACTIVATION OF PLASMINOGEN: A GENERAL MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING LOCALIZED EXTRACELLULAR PROTEOLYSIS

1978 • 176 citations

Transforming growth factors.

1985 • 168 citations

Transforming growth factors and control of neoplastic cell growth

1987 • 141 citations

Amino acid sequence of the BSC-1 cell growth inhibitor (polyergin) deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the cDNA.

1988 • 134 citations

Comparison of intra- and extracellular transforming growth factors from nontransformed and chemically transformed mouse embryo cells.

1983 • 132 citations

Regulation of the synthesis and activity of urokinase plasminogen activator in A549 human lung carcinoma cells by transforming growth factor-beta

1988 • 118 citations

Transforming growth factor β alters plasminogen activator activity in human skin fibroblasts

1986 • 114 citations

Mechanism of growth arrest of chemically transformed cells in culture.

1978 • 82 citations

Immunodetection and modulation of cellular growth with antibodies against native transforming growth factor-beta 1.

1987 • 68 citations

Gene expression in chemically transformed mouse embryo cells: Selective enhancement of the expression of C type RNA tumor virus genes

1977 • 68 citations

Autocrine secretion of peptide growth factors by tumor cells.

1982 • 21 citations

Transforming Growth Factors

1987 • 14 citations