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 Therefore, targeting HMMR along with galectin-3 and C/EBPβ complex, could be a potential treatment strategy for inhibiting gastric cancer progression and metastasis. 31822520 2020
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE The galactoside-binding protein galectin-3 is commonly overexpressed by cancer cells and promotes cancer progression and metastasis. 31604080 2020
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In the current study, we evaluated the effect of pectic polysaccharides on galectin-3 and G3BP mediated metastasis in vitro (cells) and in vivo (tissues). 31356934 2019
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 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 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
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE It was found that overexpression of Gal-3 in melanoma cells in fact suppresses metastasis. 30653955 2019
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Over the last few decades galectin-3, a carbohydrate binding protein, with affinity for N-acetyllactosamine residues, has been unique due to the regulatory roles it performs in processes associated with tumor progression and metastasis such as cell proliferation, homotypic/heterotypic aggregation, dynamic cellular transformation, migration and invasion, survival and apoptosis. 29315388 2018
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), 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 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 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 From a structural perspective, these results establish our TF mimetic as a scaffold to design multivalent solutions to potentially interfere with Gal-3 aberrant interactions and for likely use in hampering Gal-3-mediated cancer cell adhesion and metastasis. 30094951 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE The clinical importance of serum galectin-3 levels in breast cancer patients with and without metastasis. 30249872 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Taken together, our results suggest a new molecular mechanism of galectin-3-mediated cell adhesion in cancer metastasis. 30171204 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Gal-3 is a promising cancer target where it promotes tumorigenesis and metastasis, as well as in renal, pulmonary, hepatic, and cardiovascular diseases, because of its role as a driver of fibrotic remodeling. 28083958 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 has been suggested relative to tumor genesis, progression, and metastasis in basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma that are the most common skin cancers characterized by malignant epidermal proliferation. 27922892 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Poly-N-acetyl-lactosamine (polyLacNAc) substituted N-oligosaccharides on melanoma cell surface glycoproteins promote lung specific metastasis via galectin-3 by facilitating their arrest and extravasation. 28875213 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE We conclude that CD146/MCAM interactions with circulating galectin-3 may have an important influence on cancer progression and metastasis. 28364041 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE It was hypothesized that blocking galectin-3 with galactose rich dietary pectic polymer would inhibit metastasis. 28160109 2017
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 Galectin-3 (Gal-3), a member of the β-galactoside-binding lectin family, is a tumor biomarker and involved in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. 28976746 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In this study, we investigated the role of galectin-3 and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in metastasis and survival of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. 28977916 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.400 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Galectin-3 can promote cancer progression through its effects on cell proliferation, cell survival or cancer metastasis. 26447186 2016
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