Example sentences for: urokinase

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  • One of great importance, urokinase (uPA) and its high affinity receptor, the GPI-anchored membrane CD87 (uPAR), is critical in tumour progression and its level of expression is correlated with poor prognosis of various cancers such as prostate [ 2 ] , breast [ 3 ] , colon [ 4 ] , ovarian [ 5 ] , gastric [ 6 ] , brain [ 7 ] , and lung cancer [ 8 ] . Urokinase (uPA) and its main product plasmin belong to the very early proteases [ 9 10 11 ] that activate the metallo-protease (MMP) cascade and therefore control cell motility, tissue remodelling and the activation of various angiogenic factors (VEGF, TGFβ).

  • The ATF plasmid was constructed by deleting the DNA sequences encoding amino acids 139 to 401 of the urokinase cDNA plasmid.

  • Furthermore, mhATF-BPTI was shown to inhibit plasmin activity at the cell surface of rat aortic smooth muscle cells (RASMC) expressing rat urokinase receptor [ 21 ] .

  • uPA: Urokinase Plasminogen Activator

  • (TNO-Prevention and Health, Leiden The Netherlands), using a monoclonal antibody specific for the ATF as the capture antibody and a polyclonal antibody directed against BPTI as the detector antibody [ 24 ] . As a standard we used either urokinase or mhATF-BPTI.


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