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ArticleAmerican journal of cancer research

NF-κB and cancer: a paradigm of Yin-Yang.

Gutian Xiao, Jing Fu

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Article in American journal of cancer research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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64 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. PDLIM2 Repression: A Common Mechanism in Viral Lung Infection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  19. The Yin-Yang Dynamics in Cancer Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  20. PDLIM2: Signaling pathways and functions in cancer suppression and host immunity.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gutian XiaoUniversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Jing Fu

Funding

PDLIM2 as a cancer and chemosensitizing targetR01CA172090 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI XIAO, GUTIAN · 2013 to 2017
$1.6M
HTLV deregulation of NF-kappaB2 p100 processing in tumorR01CA116616 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI XIAO, GUTIAN · 2006 to 2010
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA116616NCI NIH HHS R01 CA172090
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have clearly linked nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB), a transcription factor that plays a central role in regulating immune and inflammatory responses, to tumor development, progression, and metastasis as well as tumor therapy resistance. However, it still remains largely unknown on how the tightly regulated NF-κB becomes constitutively activated in tumorigenesis and how the original cancer immunosurveillance function of NF-κB is transformed to be tumorigenic. To address these important issues for cancer prevention and treatment, we discuss current understanding of the molecular mechanisms and molecules involved in the oncogenic activation of NF-κB. We also discuss current understanding of how NF-κB coordinates the inflammatory and malignant cells in tumorigenesis.

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PMID21969033
PMCPMC3180046

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