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ReviewBiochemical pharmacology2009

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor cross-talks with multiple signal transduction pathways.

Alvaro Puga, Ci Ma, Jennifer L Marlowe

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Review in Biochemical pharmacology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
172citing papers in PubMed
20.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

172 citing papers in PubMed, 403 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Macrophage HM13/SPP Enhances Foamy Macrophage Formation and Atherogenesis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  12. AhR and STAT3: A Dangerous Duo in Chemical Carcinogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Translational cancer research · 2024
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  20. AhR and Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathways and Their Interplay.Current issues in molecular biology · 2023
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112 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alvaro PugaDepartment of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA. alvaro.puga@uc.edu
Ci Ma
Jennifer L Marlowe
University of Cincinnati Medical Center · USUniversity of Cincinnati · US

Funding

REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY RESEARCHP30ES006096 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI PINNEY, SUSAN MENGEL · 1992 to 2022
$35.4M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF COMPLEX MIXTURE TOXICITYR01ES010807 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI PUGA, ALVARO · 2001 to 2021
$8.0M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF DIOXIN ACTIONR01ES006273 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI PUGA, ALVARO · 1993 to 2015
$4.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS 2R01 ES06273NIEHS NIH HHS 2R01 ES10708NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006096NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES06096NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES006273NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons raises a number of toxic and carcinogenic responses in experimental animals and humans mediated for the most part by the aryl hydrocarbon -- or dioxin -- receptor (AHR). The AHR is a ligand-activated transcription factor whose central role in the induction of drug-metabolizing enzymes has long been recognized. For quite some time now, it has become clear that the AHR also functions in pathways outside of its role in detoxification and that perturbation of these pathways by xenobiotic ligands may be an important part of the toxicity of these compounds. AHR activation by some of its ligands participates among others in pathways critical to cell cycle regulation, mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades, immediate-early gene induction, cross-talk within the RB/E2F axis and mobilization of crucial calcium stores. Ultimately, the effect of a particular AHR ligand may depend as much on the adaptive interactions that it established with pathways and proteins expressed in a specific cell or tissue as on the toxic responses that it raises.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisCell CycleEnvironmental PollutantsHumansPolychlorinated DibenzodioxinsReceptor Cross-TalkReceptors, Aryl HydrocarbonSignal TransductionEnvironmental PollutantsPolychlorinated DibenzodioxinsReceptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon

Identifiers

PMID18817753
PMCPMC2657192
OpenAlexW2093853598

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