Development of the cerebral cortex is a series of precisely timed proliferative, migratory, and
maturational processes. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a pleiotrophic cytokine, which
plays important roles in the organogenesis and regeneration of various tissues, both during
development and in the adult, due to its mitogenic, motogenic and morphogenic activities. In
the present study, we examined expression and functional roles of HGF and c-Met during
development of the rat cerebral cortex. Quantitative competitive reverse transcription …