| pubmed-article:17456194 | pubmed:abstractText | Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) plays an important role in tissue repair and regeneration. HGF activator (HGFA), a factor XIIa-like serine protease, activates HGF precursor to HGF. The precursor of HGFA, proHGFA, is activated by thrombin generated at sites of tissue injury. It is known that protein C inhibitor (PCI), an inhibitor of activated protein C (APC), also inhibits thrombin-thrombomodulin (TM) complex. | lld:pubmed |
