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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2010

Alcohol, nutrition and liver cancer: role of Toll-like receptor signaling.

Samuel W French, Joan Oliva, Barbara A French, Jun Li, Fawzia Bardag-Gorce

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  12. Alcoholic hepatitis.Journal of medicine and life · 2013
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  14. Alcoholic liver disease - Hepatocellular carcinoma transformation.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2012
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  15. Immunobiology of hepatocellular carcinoma.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Samuel W FrenchDepartment of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Carson St., Torrance, CA 90509, USA. sfrench@labiomed.org
Joan Oliva
Barbara A French
Jun Li
Fawzia Bardag-Gorce

Funding

PHS HHS 8116PHS HHS P50-011999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article reviews the evidence that ties the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to the natural immune pro-inflammatory response to chronic liver disease, with a focus on the role of Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling as the mechanism of liver stem cell/progenitor transformation to HCC. Two exemplary models of this phenomenon are reviewed in detail. One model applies chronic ethanol/lipopolysaccharide feeding to the activated TLR4 signaling pathway. The other applies chronic feeding of a carcinogenic drug, in which TLR2 and 4 signaling pathways are activated. In the drug-induced model, two major methyl donors, S-adenosylmethionine and betaine, prevent the upregulation of the TLR signaling pathways and abrogate the stem cell/progenitor proliferation response when fed with the carcinogenic drug. This observation supports a nutritional approach to liver cancer prevention and treatment. The observation that upregulation of the TLR signaling pathways leads to liver tumor formation gives evidence to the popular concept that the chronic pro-inflammatory response is an important mechanism of liver oncogenesis. It provides a nutritional approach, which could prevent HCC from developing in many chronic liver diseases.

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Nutritional StatusAnimalsCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanolHumansLiverLiver DiseasesLiver NeoplasmsPhosphoproteinsSignal TransductionToll-Like ReceptorsViral Nonstructural ProteinsCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanolPhosphoproteinsToll-Like ReceptorsViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID20238401
PMCPMC2842526

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