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ReviewCell adhesion & migration

The dual roles of homeobox genes in vascularization and wound healing.

Suraj Kachgal, Kimberly A Mace, Nancy J Boudreau

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Review in Cell adhesion & migration. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 3 countries.

Suraj KachgalSurgical Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA.
Kimberly A Mace
Nancy J Boudreau
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

The Regulation of Tumor Progression by Endothelial HoxA5R01CA140655 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BOUDREAU, NANCY JOAN · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA140655
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homeobox genes represent a family of highly conserved transcription factors originally discovered to regulate organ patterning during development. More recently, several homeobox genes were shown to affect processes in adult tissue, including angiogenesis and wound healing. Whereas a subset of members of the Hox-family of homeobox genes activate growth and migration to promote angiogenesis or wound healing, other Hox genes function to restore or maintain quiescent, differentiated tissue function. Pathological tissue remodeling is linked to differential expression of activating or stabilizing Hox genes and dysregulation of Hox expression can contribute to disease progression. Studies aimed at understanding the role and regulation of Hox genes have provided insight into how these potent morphoregulatory genes can be applied to enhance tissue engineering or limit cancer progression.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenes, HomeoboxWound HealingAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell SurvivalChemokine CCL2Disease ProgressionEndothelial CellsHomeodomain ProteinsHumansNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsNeovascularization, PathologicTranscriptional ActivationCCL2 protein, humanChemokine CCL2Homeodomain ProteinsHOXA5 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID23076135
PMCPMC3547888
OpenAlexW2053444552

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