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 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 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 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
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Since MVMp is an oncotropic virus, and galectin-3 is a multifunctional protein implicated in cancer metastasis, we hypothesized that galectin-3 and Mgat5, the Golgi enzyme that synthesizes high-affinity glycan ligands of galectin-3, might play a role in MVMp infection. 25768892 2015
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Beta-galactoside-specific animal lectin galectin-3 is an apoptosis inhibitor, and cell surface-associated extracellular galectin-3 also has a role in cell migration, cancer progression, and metastasis. 26438086 2016
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype LHGDN 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 LGALS3 has been reported to be overexpressed in a variety of human cancers, but not in lung cancer, and to be involved in tumor metastasis. 12696064 2003
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE It seems that galectin-3 plays an important role in tumor progression, cell growth, invasion and metastasis. 31502061 2019
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The objective of the present study was to determine whether the absence of G3 immunostaining in preoperative FNA samples is associated with favorable clinicopathological parameters, including lymph node (LN) metastasis, in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). 22892040 2012
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3, a beta-galactoside-binding protein, has been implicated in a variety of biological functions including cell proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, tumor progression, and metastasis. 19286570 2009
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 is a human lectin involved in many cellular processes including differentiation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, neoplastic transformation, and metastasis. 21765917 2011
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Furthermore, Gal-3 binded to Poly-N-acetyl-lactosamine on N-glycans to promote NSCLC metastasis as well as contributing to tumor microenvironment immunosuppression, which might provide potential therapeutic implications for the clinical treatment of NSCLC. 31228468 2019