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: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Midkine has moderate diagnostic accuracy for HCC. 31777190 2020
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report on the design of highly specific lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) encapsulating both the chemotherapeutic drug, sorafenib (SOR), and siRNA against the midkine gene (MK), thereby conferring a novel highly efficient anticancer effect on HCC. 31403802 2019
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Subgroup analyses showed that MK provided the best efficiency for HCC diagnosis when the cutoff value was greater than 0.5 ng/mL. 31600291 2019
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We found that midkine plays an important role in enhancement of HCC cell resistance to anoikis, thereby promoting subsequent metastasis. 28430645 2017
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Lentivirus-mediated RNAi knockdown of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor inhibits the growth and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma via down-regulating midkine expression. 27813495 2016
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Finally, interactome analysis of these proteins with midkine (MDK), dickkopf-1 (DKK-1), current standard HCC biomarker alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), its interacting partners in conjunction with HCC-specific circulating and liver deregulated miRNAs target filtration highlighted seven novel statistically significant putative biomarkers including complement component 8, alpha (C8A), mannose binding lectin (MBL2), antithrombin III (SERPINC1), 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (HSD11B1), alcohol dehydrogenase 6 (ADH6), beta-ureidopropionase (UPB1) and cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily A, polypeptide 6 (CYP2A6). 26414287 2015
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Development of hybrid-type modified chitosan derivative nanoparticles for the intracellular delivery of midkine-siRNA in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. 25655295 2015
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The present study was designed to investigate the interaction network of midkine in hepatic cancer cells, and to elucidate its role in hepatocellular carcinoma. 22672821 2012
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In vitro and in vivo suppression of hepatocellular carcinoma growth by midkine-antisense oligonucleotide-loaded nanoparticles. 19399928 2009
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE At the same time, MK-AS suppressed the angiogenesis both in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (HEPG2)-induced CAM and in situ human HCC tissues. 17451201 2007
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE MK-AS increases the chemosensitivity in HepG2 cells and in situ human HCC model, and the combination of MK-AS and ADM has a much better in vitro and in vivo synergism. 17461503 2007
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease LHGDN At the same time, MK-AS suppressed the angiogenesis both in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (HEPG2)-induced CAM and in situ human HCC tissues. 17451201 2007
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Interestingly, MK-AS also clearly downregulated the protein level of Bcl-2, and upregulated p53, Bax, and caspase-3 in the hepatocellular carcinoma tissue. 17303011 2007
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Consistently, a significant increase in serum midkine, encoded by MDK, was associated with HCC patients, including those with normal serum AFP. 17317821 2007
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This aim of this study is to screen for suitable antisense oligonucleotides (ASODN) targeting MK in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells and evaluate its antitumor activity. 17112419 2006
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We examined the transcriptional activation by the regulatory regions of the midkine (MK), survivin (SUR), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. 12926063 2003
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data suggest that the MK promoter can activate a therapeutic gene preferentially in HCC and is as useful as the AFP promoter in clinical settings. 12966430 2003
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Approximately one third of the individuals with HCC (26/77) had tumor cells that expressed MK, and these were classified into the following types: moderately differentiated (20/50), well differentiated (3/16), and poorly differentiated (3/11). 10835519 2000
CUI: C2239176
Disease: Liver carcinoma
Liver carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Also, a moderate to intense level of MK expression was noted in the majority of surgically removed hepatocellular carcinomas. 8383007 1993