BCL2, BCL2 apoptosis regulator, 596

N. diseases: 1456; N. variants: 27
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE BCL-2 proto-oncogene expression in prostate cancer and its relationship to the prostatic neuroendocrine cell. 8204007 1994
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Neuroendocrine cells, p53, c-myc, c-erbB-2 and bcl-2 were rarely co-expressed at any stage of prostate cancer. 8532388 1995
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The expression of bcl-2 or accumulation of p53 protein in prostate cancer metastases did not significantly influence patient survival or the extent of metastatic disease. 8996359 1997
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Protein expression of BCL-2 in prostate cancer is highly correlated with cancer progression and androgen-independent phenotype. 9090501 1997
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To determine whether oligo-induced growth factor deprivation therapy similarly enhanced expression of bcl-2 (as follows androgen deprivation) human prostate cancer derived PC-3 cells were treated in vitro with oligos directed against TGF-alpha (MR-1) and/or EGFR (MR-2). 9232607 1997
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE The contribution of bcl2 to the regulation of the arachidonate pathway for prostate carcinoma cell survival was also investigated using highly selective inhibitors of arachidonate metabolism. 9260915 1997
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Combined analysis with Bcl-2 and P53 immunostaining predicts poorer prognosis in prostatic carcinoma. 9366376 1997
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE By efficiently destroying the intracellular bcl-2 mRNA, one might be able to make the prostate cancer cell responsive again to conventional apoptotic stimuli such as androgen withdrawal. 9413164 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Bcl-2 protein is one of the key inhibitors of apoptosis and is often unregulated in advanced prostate cancer. 9514052 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, for prostate cancer in black men there was a significant association between bcl-2 immunopositivity and higher S-phase fractions. 9598502 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE The analysis of p53, bcl-2, Ki-67, and angiogenesis revealed that only increasing p53 expression and positive family history of PCa approached significance (P = 0.057). 9609635 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Because inherent cellular radioresistance plays a critical role in the failure of radiotherapy, in this study, we investigated whether there is a correlation between the ratio of two apoptosis regulators, bcl-2 (apoptosis suppressor) and bax (apoptosis inducer) in prostatic tumors and the clinical response to radiotherapy in patients with localized prostate cancer. 9836559 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Conversely, Bcl-2+ immunostaining was observed in only 7/36 CaP (in 4/18 hormone-treated and 3/18 untreated patients). 9842970 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These results emphasize the significance of bcl-2 expression during prostate cancer progression and suggest possible mechanisms for the acquisition of androgen-independent tumor growth. 9852630 1998
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Overexpression of bcl-2 occurs frequently in prostate cancer and is associated with both hormonal therapy and chemotherapy resistance. 10190792 1999
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our group recently has also shown that bcl-2 protein expression in primary CaP is a predictor of cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. 10325496 1999
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE One androgen-insensitive prostate cancer cell line, DU-145, lacking in bcl-2 expression, was found to be completely refractory to the effects of the virus ribozyme, supporting the concept that the cytotoxic effects of the ribozyme are based solely on its effects on bcl-2 expression. 10446452 1999
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE To investigate the effect of bcl-2-mediated anti-apoptotic ability on tumor growth and progression in prostate cancer, a cell line overexpressing bcl-2 (LNCaP/bcl-2) was established by genetically engineering a prostate cancer cell line LNCaP. 10533903 1999
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Relation of Bcl-2 expression to androgen receptor, p21WAF1/CIP1, and cyclin D1 status in prostate cancer. 10884916 2000
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cytokine-mediated protection of human dendritic cells from prostate cancer-induced apoptosis is regulated by the Bcl-2 family of proteins. 10945499 2000
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Both Bcl-xL and Bcl-2, antiapoptotic members of the Bcl family, are found in prostate cancer cell lines. 11085527 2000
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE In vivo, xenograft tumors derived from the bcl-2-overexpressing prostate carcinoma cell lines displayed increased angiogenic potential and grew more aggressively than tumors derived from the control cell lines (P =.03 for PC3). 11158189 2001
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE These findings identify combined antisense Bcl-2 and paclitaxel as a potentially new therapeutic strategy for advanced prostate cancer by enhancing paclitaxel chemosensitivity and delaying progression of hormone-refractory prostate cancer. 11275990 2001
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Bcl-2 correlates with tumor ploidy and nuclear morphology in early stage prostate carcinoma. A fine needle aspiration biopsy study. 11482579 2001
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.200 Biomarker disease BEFREE Restoring the balance of Bcl-2 family members may result in the induction of apoptosis in prostate cancer cells previously resistant to treatment. 11571575 2001