LGALS14 and hepatocellular carcinoma: To investigate the function of galectin-14 in HCC, we knocked down galectin-14 in Huh-7 and Huh-7 sc1 (galectin-14 positive) cells, and overexpressed galectin-14 in sc22 (galectin-14 negative) cells (Fig. 3A).In vitro proliferation assays showed that galectin-14 knockdown significantly inhibited proliferation of Huh-7 cells (Fig. 3B).