SNHG5 and neoplasm: Firstly, we examined the effect of SNHG5 on cell phenotype, knockdown of SNHG5 induced the reversion of mesenchymal like morphological feature into an epithelial phenotype in HepG2 cells (Fig. 7d).The rescue experiments was conducted to prove that SNHG5 promote tumor EMT by competitively binding miR-26-5p.