MDK, midkine, 4192

N. diseases: 209; N. variants: 1
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Peptide-specific T cell lines recognized cells transfected with an MDK-encoded plasmid and tumor cell lines naturally expressing the MDK protein, but not untransfected cells. 20511550 2010
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE MDK activates the PI3K pathway and induces anti-apoptotic activity, in turn enhancing the survival of tumors. 23976985 2013
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The expression of midkine (MK), a heparin-binding growth factor, is increased in various human tumors, making it a promising tumor marker and target for tumor therapy. 21787488 2011
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE To investigate the in vivo effects of MK overexpression on tumor growth, each cell line was injected s.c. and orthotopically into nude mice. 14613994 2003
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The present study was conducted to assess whether midkine (MK), a multifunctional molecule known to stimulate tumor growth, may be involved in the development of endometriosis. 15734764 2005
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Midkine is highly expressed in various cancers, including neuroblastoma, one of the most malignant paediatric solid tumours known. 24116381 2014
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Tumors that hemorrhaged had higher IHC staining for CD34 and CD105. mRNA expression analysis revealed tumor hemorrhage was associated with increased expression of HIF1α and MDK, and decreased expression of F3. 28102487 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These results suggest an important role of MK in the development and/or biological behavior of tumors and raised a possibility to use MK as a diagnostic marker. 8383007 1993
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Antisense oligonucleotides targeting midkine inhibit tumor growth in an in situ human hepatocellular carcinoma model. 17303011 2007
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE A significant positive correlation was observed between the expression levels of MK and the infiltrative depth of the tumor, the presence of lymph node metastasis and the prognosis of the patients (P<0.05). 25017879 2014
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The cytokine midkine (MK) promotes tumor growth mainly by inducing angiogenesis. 22707563 2012
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE On this basis, we replaced the CAR binding sequence of Ad5 with the CD46 binding sequence of Ad35 in the replication-defective adenoviruses and the tumor-specific midkine promoter-regulated oncolytic adenoviruses. 23962292 2013
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Midkine overexpression has been shown to be a tumor biomarker in several types of human cancer, but little is known about the clinical significance of midkine in breast cancer patients. 26159850 2015
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In addition, there was exclusive or elevated in vitro expression of angiogenic factors IL-8, PDGF-AB, and, to a lesser extent, midkine in cell lines that formed highly vascularized tumors. 10842189 2000
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Midkine (MK) expression has been documented to be inversely correlated with the prognosis of patients with various tumors, but the mechanism of this relationship has not been well characterized. 20811700 2010
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Using the minimal promoter region of MK to drive the HSV-TK gene and in vivo electroporation to transduce IL-21 DNA into the tumors produced an efficient gene therapy with improved safety. 17695518 2007
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE We showed that MDKΔ81-121 dramatically inhibited (up to 91%) tumor development and growth. 25492619 2015
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Further study is necessary on the mechanism of MK in gastric tumorigenesis and tumor growth. 17484808 2007
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, in in vitro and in vivo assays, knockdown of midkine resulted in significant sensitivity to anoikis, decreased cell survival and significantly decreased tumor occurrence rate. 28430645 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The expressions of midkine and pleiotrophin mRNA in cervical cancer were higher than those in the normal cervix (MK, 175.59 +/- 63.3 vs 1.00 +/- 0.18 fmol, respectively; PTN, 3.18 +/- 1.25 vs. 0.86 +/- 0.12 fmol, respectively, P < 0.05), and their expressions were not correlated with cervical cancer stage or size of the tumor. 12648577 2003
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Therapeutic approaches targeting midkine suppress tumor growth and lung metastasis in osteosarcoma. 22099874 2012
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE ALK activation was largely independent of mutations and correlated with midkine expression in tumors. 26687816 2016
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE By contrast, no significant difference in cytotoxicity was detected between these viruses in normal human fibroblasts. oHSV-MDK-34.5 impaired in vivo tumor growth and increased median survival of MPNST tumor-bearing nude mice. 20603890 2010
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In the noncancerous follicular epithelial cells adjacent to neoplasm the signals of MK transcripts were detected very weakly or not at all. 11048798 2000
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Patients with high tumor midkine expression frequently have a worse prognosis than those with low expression. 22672821 2012