... obtained from the Shizuoka Laboratory Animal Center (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka,Japan). All mice were maintained in a pathogen-free facility at the Hyogo College of Medicine (Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan).Animal ... Gohda E, Tsubouchi H, Nakayama H, Hirono S, Sakiyama O, Taka-hashi K, Miyazaki H, Hashimoto S, Daikuhara Y: Purification andpartial characterization of hepatocyte growth factor fromplasma of ... β-actin. The primer sequencesused were as follows:1. IL-4, CCAGCTAGTTGTCATCCTGCTCTTCTTTCTCGand CAGTGATGAGGACTTGGACTCATTCATGGTGC.2. TGF-β1, TGGACCGCAACAACGCCATCTATGA-GAAAACC and TGGAGCTGAAGCAATAGTTGGTATC-CAGGGCT.3....