Abstract
Various peptide growth factors have been found to regulate epithelial cell function within the mucosal epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract. In this study hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) was found to stimulate intestinal epithelial cell proliferation: 2.5-fold in the non-transformed rat small intestinal epithelial cell line IEC-6 and 1.9-fold in the human colon cancer-derived HT-29 cell line. In addition, HGF/SF enhanced epithelial cell restitution, the initial step involved in gastrointestinal wound healing, in an invitro model. Migration of IEC-6 in wounded monolayers was enhanced up to 7-fold. Enhancement of restitution by HGF could be completely abrogated by addition of immunoneutralizing anti-TGFβ1, indicating that this process is mediated through a TGFβ-dependent pathway. These findings suggest that HGF exerts functional effects on intestinal epithelial cell populations and may play a role in the morphogenesis tract and its remodeling following injury.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 701-709 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
| Volume | 202 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 29 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology