Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE As demonstrated by Northern blot analysis, AIDS-KS cells as well as tumor cells show a high expression level of the VEGF gene as compared to primary human vascular cells like smooth muscle cells or endothelial cells. 1567395 1992
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Vascular permeability factor (vascular endothelial growth factor) gene is expressed differentially in normal tissues, macrophages, and tumors. 1550962 1992
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE In situ analysis of tumour specimens undergoing neovascularization show that the production of VEGF is specifically induced in a subset of glioblastoma cells distinguished by their immediate proximity to necrotic foci (presumably hypoxic regions) and the clustering of capillaries alongside VEGF-producing cells. 1279431 1992
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE These observations strongly support the concept that tumour angiogenesis is regulated by paracrine mechanisms and identify VEGF as a potential tumour angiogenesis factor in vivo. 1279432 1992
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Our findings indicate that VEGF/VPF is a tumor angiogenic factor. 7688963 1993
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The relative abundance of the forms of VEGPF mRNA was consistent in tumor and normal brain: VEGPF495 > VEGPF363 > VEGPF567. 8380810 1993
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Crucial in tumor angiogenesis are the paracrine actions of tumor-secreted factors (e.g., vascular endothelial growth factor), which have been thought to derive from the tumor epithelial cells themselves. 7525053 1994
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE These results suggest that VEGF is produced by the tumor cells and is responsible for development of this hypervascular tumor. 7846687 1994
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE These data support previous reports, which stated that VEGF/VPF acts as a paracrine growth and permeability factor in brain tumors and may contribute to tumor growth by initiating tumor angiogenesis. 7528359 1994
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE These findings suggest that VEGF is produced and secreted by glioma cells and acts on tumor endothelial cells which express VEGF receptors. 7525492 1994
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Recent studies demonstrated a key role for VEGF in tumor neovascularization, which is a prerequisite for tumor proliferation and metastasis. 8589021 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE In this study we have examined the possibility that VEGF may also play an autocrine role in tumour growth. 8554590 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Stabilized VEGF transcripts in tumor cells are refractile or nearly refractile toward further stabilization by TPA or hypoxia, respectively. 8930020 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE By immunohistochemistry, VEGF protein was detectable in the tumor interstitium and was found to be concentrated around capillaries. 7533661 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Abundant message for VEGF was found in all tumors, localized to the malignant cells within each neoplasm. 7535799 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE VEGF is known to be produced by several tumor cells and plays an important role for neovascularization in tumor tissue. 8558848 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The cells were further modified with a chronic benzo(a)pyrene exposure and were termed HOK-16B-BaP-T cells (1) demonstrated a malignant phenotype in organotypic 'raft' culture, (2) showed in vitro anchorage-independency, (3) developed tumors in nude mice when injected subcutaneously, (4) contained a significantly higher copy number of intact and integrated HPV-16 DNA; (5) contained higher level of HPV-16 E6/E7 messages and E7 protein, (6) were more resistant to transforming growth factor-beta 1 and (7) secreted higher level of vascular endothelial growth factor with molecular weight of 56 kd than parental HOK-16B-BaP cells. 7784058 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Substantial expression of the receptors for VEGF is restricted mainly to the tumour blood vessels. 8527839 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE We aimed to clarify the function of VEGF in tumor development by identifying the cells in ovarian carcinoma tissue that express VEGF and its receptors. 7707437 1995
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor depends on activated oncogenes and inactivated tumor-suppressor genes as well as several other factors, e.g., growth factors, hypoxia, and tumor promoters. 8806195 1996
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Neovascularization stimulated by VEGF occurs in several important clinical contexts, including myocardial ischemia, retinal disease, and tumor growth. 8756616 1996
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Transfection did not influence the in vitro growth rate of the cell lines, but the tumors from the VPF-transfected lines had higher growth rates in vivo than tumors from the parental line or the vector-transfected line. 8644861 1996
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE PD-ECGF expression in human colon cancer specimens is associated with vessel count and may be responsible for tumor vascularity in those tumors with low VEGF expression. 8757194 1996
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE To determine whether the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is altered by treatment in an in vivo tumor with 17 beta-estradiol (E2) or medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA). 8626126 1996
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Our results suggest that angiogenesis observed in our assay may be due to the synergic effects of tumor angiogenic factors such as VEGF, and Matrigel. 8690516 1996