LGALS3, galectin 3, 3958

N. diseases: 557; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Oral administration of a novel small molecule galectin-3 inhibitor GB1107 reduced human and mouse lung adenocarcinoma growth and blocked metastasis in the syngeneic model. 30674531 2019
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype CTD_human It is therefore suggested that the blockade of galectin-3 mediated lung metastasis appears to be a result of an inhibition of mixed functions induced during metastasis. 25882088 2015
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-1 and galectin-3 contribute to neoplastic transformation, angiogenesis, and tumor metastasis in some cancers. 30055522 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is a beta-galactoside-binding protein that is involved in cancer progression and metastasis. 18988806 2008
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 (Gal-3), a β-galactoside-binding protein, has been implicated in cell proliferation, cell adhesion, and the progression and metastasis of various types of cancer. 29545898 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In conclusion, our findings provide the rationale for testing blockers of collagen binding sites, such as revacept, and galectin-3 inhibitors in the prevention of colon cancer metastasis in animal models, followed by studies in patients. 23580446 2013
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Alterations of galectin-3 expression are often seen in cancers and may contribute to tumorigenesis, cancer progression, and metastasis. 23449638 2013
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE This may have important implications for understanding the role of galectin-3 in colon cancer metastasis. 12198708 2002
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE This study provides direct evidence that galectin 3 plays an important role in colon cancer metastasis. 9679034 1998
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 (Gal-3) plays a prominent role in tumor growth, metastasis, angiogenesis, and immune evasion. 29900046 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 is a multifunctional β-galactoside‑binding lectin that is involved in multiple biological functions which are upregulated in malignancies, including cell growth, adhesion, proliferation, progression and metastasis, as well as apoptosis. 26718452 2016
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Accumulated evidences indicate that Gal-3 is closely involved in tumor cell transformation, migration, invasion and metastasis. 24530298 2014
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In the analysis of patients with DCC, the number of patients with high galectin-3 expression (P=0.038), recurrence (P<0.001), distant metastases (P<0.001), R0 status (P=0.029) or microscopic vascular invasion (P=0.019) was significantly higher in the gal-3-INA-positive group than in the gal-3-INA-negative group. 28693238 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Gal-3 also plays an important role in tumor development and metastasis. 26800112 2016
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Collectively, our results indicate that overexpression of galectin-3 may play a role in tumor cell invasion and metastasis by specifically influencing cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix. 10699929 2000
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 (Gal-3), a beta-galactoside-binding protein, has been implicated in a variety of biological functions, including cell proliferation and differentiation, tumor cell adhesion, angiogenesis, apoptosis, tumor progression, and metastasis. 12727847 2003
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In particular, a widely studied member galectin-3, previously designated as epsilonBP, CBP35, Mac-2, L-29 and L-34, has been associated with assorted processes such as cell growth, tumor transformation and metastasis. 10225438 1999
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 is a member of the beta-galactoside-binding protein family shown to be involved in tumor progression and metastasis. 10626818 1999
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3, a member of a β-galactoside-binding protein family, is involved in normal growth development as well as cancer progression and metastasis, but the detailed mechanisms of its functions or its transcriptional regulations are not well understood. 25253153 2015
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 is involved in tumor cell proliferation, adhesion, angiogenesis and metastasis. 25339127 2015
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE These studies define a galectin-3/phospho-caveolin-1/RhoA signaling module that mediates integrin signaling downstream of growth factor activation, leading to actin and matrix remodeling and tumor cell migration in metastatic cancer cells. 23657817 2013
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE These results demonstrate that carbohydrate-mediated, metastasis-associated tumor cell adhesion could be inhibited efficiently with short synthetic peptides which do not mimic naturally occurring glycoepitopes yet bind to the galectin-3 carbohydrate recognition domain with high affinity and specificity. 15528216 2005
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The aim of this study was to evaluate if the immunohistochemical markers cyclin D1 or galectin-3 might indicate the presence of metastatic disease in patients with PMC at the time of diagnosis. 17906980 2008
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE This study investigates the hypothesis that PNA appearance in the circulation after peanut ingestion may mimic the actions of endogenous TF-binding human galectin-3 in metastasis promotion. 25326505 2014
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Fecal concentration of Gal-3 was enhanced in CRC patients with higher nuclear grade, poor tumor tissue differentiation, advanced TNM stage, and metastatic disease. 29849497 2018