VEGFA, vascular endothelial growth factor A, 7422

N. diseases: 1899; N. variants: 59
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Widespread distribution of VEGF receptor Flt-1 in BPH, PIN and prostate cancer specimens suggests that VEGF function in prostate is not restricted to endothelial cells and angiogenesis. 10893635 2000
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE While immunostaining intensity for HIF-1alpha and VEGF was significantly enhanced in 75% of PCa specimens when compared to matched benign specimens (p < 0.0001), the CT genotype did not modulate the kinetics of HIF-1alpha protein expression in hypoxia in vitro, and was not associated with enhanced expression of hypoxic biomarkers. 19106642 2009
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We studied VEGF expression, p53 overexpression, and P53 mutations in prostate cancer (PCA) to investigate the role of VEGF as an angiogenic marker and the possible deregulation of VEGF as a result of P53 mutations in PCA. 11074523 2000
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We show that the VEGF receptor neuropilin-2 (NRP2) is associated with high-grade, PTEN-null prostate cancer and that its expression in tumor cells is induced by PTEN loss as a consequence of c-Jun activation. 22777769 2012
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We made the following findings: (1) the human heart, muscle, eye, pancreas, and lymph node are among the tissues with the highest APs; (2) tissues with high APs have more active angiogenic pathways and angiogenic C/C responses; (3) inflammatory TRs dominate regulation of all angiogenic C/Cs; homeostatic TRs regulate all to a lower extent, while endothelial cell-specific TRs mainly regulate pro-angiogenic and bi-functional C/Cs; (4) tissue AP is positively correlated with the expression of oxygen sensors PHD2 and HIF1B, VEGF pathway gene VEGFB, and stem cell gene SOX2; (5) cancers of the digestive system tend to have increased angiogenesis dominated by endothelial cell-specific pro-angiogenic pathways, while lung cancer and prostate cancer have significantly decreased angiogenesis; and (6) endothelial cell-specific pro-angiogenic pathways are significantly increased in thrombus-derived leukocytes in patients with acute coronary artery disease. 28335793 2017
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We have coupled two of these therapeutic approaches, gene therapy and antiangiogenic therapy and tested them in two murine prostate cancer models Recombinant adenovirus encoding the ligand-binding ectodomain of the VEGF receptor 2 (Flk1) fused to an Fc domain was administered to SCID mice carrying orthotopic human LNCaP tumors as well as to transgenic (TRAMP) mice with spontaneous prostate tumors. 12496487 2003
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We extended these studies and more recently observed increased expression of genes related to angiogenesis such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and those related to metastasis such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 in prostate cancer of TRAMP mice. 12840218 2003
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We examined associations between 58 SNPs in nine angiogenesis-related candidate genes (EGF, LTA, HIF1A, HIF1AN, MMP2, MMP9, NOS2A, NOS3, VEGF) and risk of overall and advanced prostate cancer. 18398039 2008
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We demonstrate that treatment of human prostate cancer cell lines with zinc reduces expression of VEGF, IL-6, IL-8 and MMP-9. 16606632 2006
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We correlated LSD1 and JMJD2A expression with known mediators of prostate cancer progression: VEGF-A and cyclin A1. 23384557 2013
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We confirmed that the dual-aptasensor can be applied as an advanced and new medical device capable of simultaneously quantifying PSA and VEGF to early diagnose prostate cancer with good accuracy, precision, and reproducibility. 30367880 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We concluded that NOX2 oxidase expression and endosomal ROS production were important for prostate cancer growth and that this was required to positively regulate the VEGF pathway. 30459931 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We conclude that genetic variants in the VEGF gene may influence the risk of high-grade late rectal toxicity after definitive radiotherapy for prostate cancer. 22105769 2011
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We also observed a significant decrease in migration potential and VEGF expression in Orlistat and AICAR co-treated samples in all three PCa cell-lines. 28387458 2017
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We aimed to investigate the effects of thrombin on IL-8 and VEGF expression in DU 145 prostate cancer cells. 16530725 2006
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) exerts similar effects in prostate cancer models involving increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) which are related to NF-κB transactivation. 25446255 2015
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Using a prostate cancer CAF cell line and primary cultures of CAF from prostate cancers, we show that RES activates the N-terminal mutated Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) channel leading to an increase in intracellular calcium concentration and the expression and secretion of growth factors (HGF and VEGF) without inducing apoptosis in these cells. 28277613 2017
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To understand the role of miR-129-5p and ZIC2 in PCa, DU145 cells were transfected with mimic or inhibitor of miR-129-5p, or si-ZIC2 and the expression of Wnt, β-catenin, E-cadherin, vimentin, N-cadherin, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and CD31, as well as the extent of β-catenin phosphorylation was determined. 31649488 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE To investigate the mechanisms involved in PCa (prostate cancer) metastasis and CXCR4 (CXC chemokine receptor-4)-mediated VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) and MMP-9 (matrix metalloproteinase-9) expression, we used lentivirus-mediated RNAi (RNA interference) to reduce the expression of CXCR4 in a PCa cell line. 21306303 2011
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE To define further the critical mechanisms underlying hormone responsiveness we examined the angiogenic mediator, vascular endothelial growth factor messenger (m) RNA and protein in response to androgens in vitro as well as the angiogenic response of xenografts of human prostate cancer after androgen withdrawal in vivo. 11176459 2001
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This study shows that ADT is associated with lower HIF1a gene expression in human prostate cancer tissue and documents prognostic value for VEGF-A and VEGF-C expression levels. 20564320 2010
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This study investigates VEGF increase following subcurative PDT using the photosensitizer benzoporphyrin derivative (BPD) both in an in vitro and in an orthotopic model of prostate cancer using the human prostate cancer cell line LNCaP. 16740700 2006
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This may exploit tumor-specific characteristics, such as targeting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) signaling and mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) activity in renal cancer and inducing survival factor deprivation by targeting androgen signaling in prostate cancer. 29371637 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results suggest that tumor-secreted VEGF-C and, to a lesser extent, VEGF-A, are important for inducing prostate cancer intratumoral lymphangiogenesis but are unnecessary for lymph node metastasis. 16267000 2005
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results suggest that single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with differential production of IL-8, IL-10, and VEGF are risk factors for PC, possibly acting via their influence on angiogenesis. 12067976 2002