[These results indicate that: (a) high Met protein expression level correlates with poorer survival in late-stage NPC and serves as an independent prognostic indicator; and (b) the Met receptor in NPC is activated by its paracrine ligand HGF from the interstitial tissues rather than by an autocrine loop or its activating mutation.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE