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ReviewJournal of hepatology2012

Pathological roles of purinergic signaling in the liver.

Byron P Vaughn, Simon C Robson, Geoffrey Burnstock

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Review in Journal of hepatology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Clodronate: The Influence on ATP Purinergic Signaling.Current rheumatology reviews · 2026
    Review
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  5. Impact of Estrogen on Purinergic Signaling in Microvascular Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  6. P2YActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025
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  11. P2X7 Receptor in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis and Alcoholic Liver Fibrosis.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2022
    Review
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  13. Receptor-specific CaiScience · 2021
    Article
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  18. Purinergic Signaling in Liver Pathophysiology.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Byron P VaughnDivision of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Simon C Robson
Geoffrey Burnstock
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHarvard University · USUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Purinergic ThromboregulationR01HL094400 · NHLBI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI ROBSON, SIMON C. · 2009 to 2010
$1.4M
Engineering Inhibitory Antibodies to Ectoenzymes for Cancer TreatmentR21CA164970 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI ROBSON, SIMON C. · 2012 to 2013
$405k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA164970NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL094400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purinergic signaling has been postulated as a mechanism of cellular signaling since the early 1970s. Cellular responses triggered by extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides occur by defined adenosine (P1) and ATP (P2) receptors, respectively, and play a prominent role in many aspects of health and disease, including those involving the liver. In normal physiology, extracellular nucleotides modulate many of the normal biologic and hepatic metabolic processes such as gluconeogenesis and insulin responsiveness. Further, in multiple disease states, ATP and certain nucleotides serve as danger signals and are involved in heightened purinergic receptor activation in a myriad of pathologic processes. Recently, others and we have shown the regulation of purinergic signaling by ectonucleotidases to play an important role in the acute vascular pathobiology of liver inflammation, regeneration, and immunity, as in ischemia reperfusion and transplantation. Increased understanding into mechanisms of extracellular ATP metabolism by such ecto enzymes has also led to novel insights into the exquisite balance of nucleotide P2-receptor and adenosinergic P1-receptor signaling in those chronic hepatic diseases characterized by steatosis, fibrosis, and malignancy. This review will explore the developing role of purinergic signaling in the pathophysiology of liver disease and comment on potential future clinical applications.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAdenosine TriphosphateAntigens, CDApyraseHumansLiver DiseasesLiver RegenerationLiver TransplantationNucleotidesReceptors, PurinergicAdenosine TriphosphateAntigens, CDApyraseCD39 antigenNucleotidesReceptors, Purinergic

Identifiers

PMID22709619
PMCPMC3732799
OpenAlexW2032303128

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