Gene Disease Score gda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Patients with visceral metastasis and more than one metastatic site were significantly more likely to present with elevated uPA levels. 30783124

2019

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE 6-Substituted amiloride derivatives as inhibitors of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator for use in metastatic disease. 31679971

2019

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE The binding of uPA with uPAR is instrumental for the activation of plasminogen to plasmin, which in turn initiates a series of proteolytic cascade to degrade the components of the extracellular matrix, and thereby, cause tumor cell migration from the primary site of origin to a distant secondary organ. 29484286

2018

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE In turn, uPA participates in the activation of secreted latent TGF-β, thus producing a malicious loop which contributes to tumor progression and metastasis. 29086689

2018

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the overall survival time of patients with positive expression of uPA or p38MAPK protein was significantly shorter, and the time of recurrence or metastasis of esophageal cancer was significantly earlier in patients with uPA-positive expression. 30568465

2018

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE The urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), a glycoprotein localized on the cell surface with a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor, plays a crucial role in cell invasion, and the metastasis of several cancers, including bladder cancer, and its expression are significantly negatively correlated with patient survival rates. 29945448

2018

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE Taking into account the role of uPA and PAI in cell detachment, formation of new stroma, tumor cell reimplantation and metastasis uPA inhibition should be further investigated as maintenance treatment in patients with advanced EOC. 27345498

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) expression enhances invasion and metastasis in RAS mutated tumors. 28839232

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE Moreover, since uPA implications in tumor development and cancer cell invasion and metastasis, it is an attractive target for cancer chemotherapies. 28820062

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Overexpression of extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN) accelerates tumor invasion and metastasis via activation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) expression. 28118037

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE In gastric cancer, FOXM1 and uPA levels were associated with tumor size, depth of invasion, tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage, lymph node metastasis, vessel invasion and distant metastases. 29344165

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE The trypsin-like serine protease, urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), is central in tissue remodeling processes and also strongly implicated in tumor metastasis. 28611361

2017

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE The urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) plays a central role in tissue remodelling events occurring in normal physiology and in pathophysiology, including cancer invasion and metastasis. 26718643

2016

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE We observed correspondingly lower expression levels of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), uPA receptor, cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which are important factors in cancer metastasis, in breast tumor irradiated with 30 Gy proton beam. 27176787

2016

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Stromal macrophages of different phenotypes can contribute to the expression of proteins that affects metastasis such as urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), its receptor uPAR, and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), but knowledge of how essential their contribution is in comparison to the cancer cells in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is lacking. 26050228

2015

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE Genetic deficiency of uPA leads to a significant reduction in metastases in the murine transgenic MMTV-PyMT breast cancer model, demonstrating a causal role for uPA in cancer dissemination. 26040548

2015

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE This review lists the disruption of E-cadherin and tight junctions, key signaling pathways, including urokinase type plasminogen activator (uPA), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene (PI3K/AKT), focal adhesion kinase (FAK), β-catenin/zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB-1) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), together with inactivation of activator protein-1 (AP-1) and suppression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) activity as key targets and the use of phytochemicals, or natural products, such as those from Agaricus blazei, Albatrellus confluens, Cordyceps militaris, Ganoderma lucidum, Poria cocos and Silybum marianum, together with diet derived fatty acids gamma linolenic acid (GLA) and eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and inhibitory compounds as useful approaches to target tissue invasion and metastasis as well as other hallmark areas of cancer. 25865774

2015

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE By comparing the two groups, u-PA and VEGF were positively correlated in gastric cancer tissue (P < 0.05). u-PA and VEGF were highly expressed in gastric cancer tissue, which could be used as the molecular biological indicators to predict the invasion and metastasis potential of gastric cancer. 27352182

2015

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Hypoxia promotes both the invasiveness and the metastasis of cancer cells through urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) expression. 24474395

2014

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE miR-193b directly targets STMN1 and uPA genes and suppresses tumor growth and metastasis in pancreatic cancer. 25215905

2014

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE Whereas SERPINB2 is known to function as a suppressor of uPA molecular cascades, many of which play important roles in tumor invasion and metastasis, a role for SERPINB2 in cancer drug resistance has not been examined. 23661500

2014

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker BEFREE Urokinase type plasminogen activator (uPA) is a serine protease that is involved in cancer progression, especially invasion and metastasis of breast cancer. 25377085

2014

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE These results show that u-PA expression may be a potent therapeutic target in the TCE-mediated suppression of HCC metastasis. 24886639

2014

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE The expression of the uPA system positively correlates with peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer. 23985164

2013

Entrez Id: 5328
Gene Symbol: PLAU
PLAU
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression BEFREE Promotion of colon tumorigenesis by FOXM1 directly and significantly correlated with activation of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (PLAUR) expression and elevation of invasion and metastasis. 23136192

2013