| Infection |
| Nordstrand et al., 2001 | Plg−/− mice on C57Bl/6 background | Aids in infection by B. crocidurae | | | |
| Gebbia et al., 1999 | Plg−/− mice on mixed 129/Black Swiss background | Increases bacterial load in inflammation in brains and hearts of mice treated with B. burgdorferi | | | |
| Coleman et al., 1995 | Human umbilical vein endothelial cells | Aids in B. burgdorferi penetration of endothelium | | | |
| Guo et al., 2011 | Plg−/−, tPA−/−, and uPA−/− mice on C57Bl/6 background | Aids in infection by S. aureus | Aids in infection by S. aureus | Aids in infection by S. aureus | |
| Berri et al., 2013 | Plg−/− mice on C57Bl/6 background | Aids in lung inflammation in response to infection with H5N1 and H1N1 viruses | | | Yes |
| Stie and Fox, 2012a, 2012b | Primary cultured BMEC | Used by the fungus C. neoformans to invade its host | | Upregulated in response to C. neoformans infection | |
| González-Miguel et al., 2019 | Wistar rats | Enhanced generation in response to parasite F. hepatica infection | | | |
| Silva et al., 2019 | Plg−/− and Fbg−/− mice on C57Bl/6 background | Necessary for macrophage migration in sterile peritonitis | | | Yes |
| Neurological disease |
| Tsirka et al., 1997a, 1997b | C57Bl/6 mice | Regulates neuronal death in response to acute kainate injection | Regulates microglial activation and neuronal death in response to acute kainate injection | | No |
| Hultman et al., 2014 | Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Promotes neuroinflammation in response to acute LPS challenge | | | No |
| Baker et al., 2019 | C57Bl/6 mice | Recruits perivascular macrophage migration and microglial activation in response to peripheral LPS challenge | | | |
| Paul et al., 2007 | Plg−/− AD mice | Contributes to neurovascular damage in a mouse model of AD | | | Yes |
| Shaw et al., 2017 | Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Promotes demyelination in EAE model | | | Yes |
| Baker et al., 2018 | Tg6799 mice | Promotes neuroinflammation and AD pathology | | | |
| Siao and Tsirka, 2002 | tPA−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | | Promotes microglial activation in response to LPS | | |
| East et al., 2005; Dahl et al., 2016 | tPA−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | | Protects against early onset and severe demyelination in EAE model | | Yes |
| Lenglet et al., 2014 | 129/SvEV mice | | Increases inflammation following stroke | | No |
| Arthritis |
| Li et al., 2005 | uPA−/− and Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Promotes joint inflammation in systemic collagen type II–induced arthritis | | Promotes joint inflammation in collagen type II–induced arthritis | |
| Raghu et al., 2014 | Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Prevents joint inflammation in small joints and promotes inflammation in large joints in a monoarticular TNF-α arthritis model | | | Yes |
| Cook et al., 2010 | uPA−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | | | Necessary for systemic arthritis development | |
| De Nardo et al., 2010 | uPA−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | | | Limits susceptibility to monoarticular arthritis | Yes |
| Other |
| Das et al., 2013 | Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Promotes atherosclerosis progression via regulation of foam cell formation | | | |
| DeFilippis et al., 2016 | Humans with myocardial infarction | Binds to OxPLs to regulate inflammation in myocardial infarction events | | | Yes |
| Swaisgood et al., 2007 | Plg−/− mice on a C57Bl/6 background | Promotes mucus production and immune cell recruitment into lungs of ovalbumin-induced asthma model | | | |
| Li et al., 2011 | BALB/c mice | Plasminogen is decreased and plasmin is increased in psoriatic lesions, promoting upregulation of chemokines | | | |