ARG2, arginase 2, 384

N. diseases: 103; N. variants: 4
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two polymorphisms in arginase 2 (rs17249437 and rs3742879) were associated with asthma and with more severe airway obstruction. 20124949 2010
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To determine the relationships of iNOS expression/activation and arginase 2 expression with asthma severity, FeNO, nitrotyrosine (NT) and eosinophilic inflammation. 22092728 2012
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 Biomarker disease BEFREE Carrying 2 copies of minor alleles for either of 2 highly associated ARG2 SNPs was associated with a statistically significant increased relative risk (RR) of asthma (1.5, 95% CI = 1.1-2.1 for arg2s1; RR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.1-2.3 for arg2s2). 16387594 2006
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Microarray analysis of the expression profiles of lung tissue in two murine models of asthma revealed high levels of arginase I and arginase II activity, in association with IL-4 and IL-13 overexpression, suggesting that arginine pathways are critical in the pathogenesis of asthma. 12813015 2003
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 Biomarker disease BEFREE DNA methylation in ARG1 and ARG2 is associated with FeNO in children with asthma and suggests a possible role for epigenetic regulation of nitric oxide production. 21512169 2011
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 Biomarker disease CTD_human Compared with the most common haplotype within each locus, 1 ARG1 haplotype was associated with reduced risk (odds ratio [OR] per haplotype copy, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.36-0.84), and 1 ARG2 haplotype was associated with increased risk (OR per haplotype copy, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.04-1.76) of asthma. 19281908 2009
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Compared with the most common haplotype within each locus, 1 ARG1 haplotype was associated with reduced risk (odds ratio [OR] per haplotype copy, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.36-0.84), and 1 ARG2 haplotype was associated with increased risk (OR per haplotype copy, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.04-1.76) of asthma. 19281908 2009
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The elevated arginase II activity and expression may be a mechanism underlying adverse effects induced by PM exposure in asthma patients. 22712848 2012
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genes related to metabolism of basic amino acids, specifically the cationic amino acid transporter 2, arginase I, and arginase II, were particularly prominent among the asthma signature genes. 12813022 2003
CUI: C0004096
Disease: Asthma
Asthma
0.390 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Low FENO asthmatics had near normal iNOS and ARG2 expression (both P > 0.05), and significantly higher PC20 (P < 0.001) as compared to high FENO asthmatics. 28797075 2017
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.320 Biomarker disease CTD_human In contrast to prostate cancer, ARG2 expression was rarely demonstrated in PDC cells by immunohistochemistry, and instead ARG2 was characteristically expressed in α-smooth muscle actin-positive cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), especially those located within and around necrotic areas in PDC. 23424623 2013
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.320 Biomarker disease BEFREE Arginase 2, inducible- and endothelial-nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS and eNOS), indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and TGF-beta, might impair immune functions in prostate cancer (PCA) patients. 18619832 2008
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.320 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this report, we demonstrate that both ARG1 and ARG2 are expressed by hormone-sensitive (HS) and hormone-refractory (HR) PCa cell lines, with the LNCaP cells having the highest arginase activity. 20711410 2010
CUI: C0887833
Disease: Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
0.310 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here we studied the expression of ARG2 in pancreatic ductal carcinoma (PDC) tissue clinicopathologically by examining over 200 cases of PDC. 23424623 2013
CUI: C0887833
Disease: Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
0.310 Biomarker disease CTD_human Here we studied the expression of ARG2 in pancreatic ductal carcinoma (PDC) tissue clinicopathologically by examining over 200 cases of PDC. 23424623 2013
CUI: C0011853
Disease: Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD Oral administration of orthovanadate and Trigonella foenum graecum seed power restore the activities of mitochondrial enzymes in tissues of alloxan-induced diabetic rats. 12841630 2003
CUI: C0022661
Disease: Kidney Failure, Chronic
Kidney Failure, Chronic
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD Effect of chronic renal failure on arginase and argininosuccinate synthetase expression. 16809898 2006
CUI: C0023893
Disease: Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental
Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD Induction of arginase II in livers of bile duct-ligated rats. 11931836 2002
CUI: C0243026
Disease: Sepsis
Sepsis
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD Differential expression of arginase and iNOS in the lung in sepsis. 9635249 1998
CUI: C2316810
Disease: Chronic kidney disease stage 5
Chronic kidney disease stage 5
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD Effect of chronic renal failure on arginase and argininosuccinate synthetase expression. 16809898 2006
CUI: C2609414
Disease: Acute kidney injury
Acute kidney injury
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD L-Arginine transport is augmented through up-regulation of tubular CAT-2 mRNA in ischemic acute renal failure in rats. 12371970 2002
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.040 Biomarker disease BEFREE Given that arginase-II (Arg-II) exerts some of its biological functions through crosstalk with signal transduction pathways, and that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38mapk) is involved in eNOS-uncoupling, we investigated here whether p38mapk is involved in Arg-II-mediated eNOS-uncoupling in a high fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity mouse model. 25034973 2014
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.040 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conclude that hepatocyte Arg2 is a critical effector of the hepatic glucose fasting response and define a therapeutic target to mitigate the complications of obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. 30962478 2019
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.040 Biomarker disease BEFREE Role of Arginase 2 in Systemic Metabolic Activity and Adipose Tissue Fatty Acid Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obese Mice. 30909461 2019
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.040 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here the authors show that obesity induces the expression of the mitochondrial form of arginase ARG2 in PDA and that ARG2 silencing or loss results in ammonia accumulation and suppression of obesity-driven PDA tumor growth. 28808255 2017