HGF, hepatocyte growth factor, 3082

N. diseases: 671; N. variants: 22
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 PosttranslationalModification phenotype BEFREE Hepatocyte growth factor stimulates invasion across reconstituted basement membranes by a new human small intestinal cell line. 8306528 1994
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The MET oncogene encodes the receptor for HGF/Scatter Factor, known to control cell motility and invasion in epithelial cells. 8622890 1996
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor-Met signaling in tumorigenicity and invasion/metastasis. 8892055 1996
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Inhibition by platelet-activating factor of Src- and hepatocyte growth factor-dependent invasiveness of intestinal and kidney epithelial cells. Phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase is a critical mediator of tumor invasion. 9603913 1998
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has been revealed to have various functions such as regeneration, cancer invasion and tumor suppression in normal and cancer cells of different organs. 9625818 1998
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Scatter factor (SF) is a pleiotropic growth factor that recently has been shown to induce epithelial cell proliferation, random motility, and invasion via interaction with its receptor, a tyrosine kinase encoded by the c-met proto-oncogene. 9738769 1998
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Here we show that murine NIH3T3 and C127 cells transformed by the Ras oncogene overexpress the Met receptor, resulting in enhanced HGF/SF-mediated responses in vitro including invasion through basement membrane. 9798673 1998
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Moreover, recombinant TIMPs completely blocked HGF/SF-mediated branching morphogenesis, while neutralizing antibodies to the TIMPs stimulated HGF/SF-mediated invasion in vitro. 10454537 1999
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Studies with epithelial and transfected NIH3T3 cells indicated that the HGF/SF-c-MET interaction promotes invasion in vitro and in vivo. 10487611 1999
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE In addition, decreased placental production of HGF in preeclampsia provides a potential mechanism for the lack of trophoblast invasion that is seen in this pregnancy disorder. 10566655 1999
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE We have examined here the properties of NK4, an HGF variant containing the N-terminal hairpin plus the 4 kringle domains, on tumour cell proliferation, dissociation and invasion using human colorectal cancer cells (HT115). 10699931 2000
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Inhibition of HGF/SF-induced breast cancer cell motility and invasion by the HGF/SF variant, NK4. 10832594 2000
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE These results suggest that HGF induces expression of the Ets-related E1AF transcription factor gene whose product in turn activates MMP genes and leads to oral cancer cell invasion. 10836994 2000
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Our data demonstrate that HCC cells increase HGF secretion by liver myofibroblasts in a paracrine way that could act to enhance invasion. 10995891 2000
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE We have shown that hepatocyte growth factor, secreted by human liver myofibroblasts, promoted in vitro invasion of human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. 11211911 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE We conclude that in vivo, both autocrine and paracrine stimulation of tumor cells and endothelium through the SF/HGF-MET system are likely to contribute to tumor invasion and angiogenesis. 11296484 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE These data define a novel pathway for HGF-induced glioma cell migration and invasion, which requires ezrin, changes in the BCL-2/BAX rheostat, and the induction of TGF-beta(2) expression in vitro, and underscore the important role of HGF signaling in vivo. 11331365 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE These results suggest that HGF plays an important role in invasion and metastasis of oral SCC cells as a paracrine factor, and an elevated HGF level in the cancer tissue can be a predictive marker for metastasis formation in patients with oral SCC. 11477552 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) promotes the proliferation, differentiation, motility, and invasion of epithelial cells by binding to its cell surface receptor, the Met tyrosine kinase. 11485916 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE To disrupt endogenous Met signaling, we constructed dominant-negative mutants of both human and murine Met and showed that these can inhibit HGF/SF-mediated Met signaling and cell invasion of ras-transformed cells in vitro. 11535809 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF), a cytokine associated with cancer cell migration and invasion, is synthesised as pro-HGF/SF and requires activation by factors such as the HGF activator (HGFA). 11562767 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE This provides a new mechanism in HGF/SF-induced cell scattering, resulting in a switch to a more invasive phenotype in LNCapFGC cells, as demonstrated by in vitro invasion. 11595727 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE We studied the effect of HGF/SF on invasiveness of SKG-IIIa and Hela-S3 in an invasion model of the modified Boyden chamber method and by electron microscopy. 11606073 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Furthermore, we have defined a novel pathway for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-induced glioma cell migration and invasion which requires the induction of TGF-beta2 expression. 11716069 2001
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The role of MMP-3 in HGF-induced invasion was directly confirmed by using an antibody to MMP-3, that blocked invasion. 11774258 2002