[The increased presence of specific receptors for u-PA in gastrointestinal carcinomas, particularly primary colonic carcinomas and their metastatic lesions in the liver, emphasizes the involvement of the urokinase pathway of plasminogen activation in gastrointestinal carcinogenesis and renders it a putative target for clinical intervention.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE