Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23401619›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of physiology2013

Oxygen sensing and hypoxia signalling pathways in animals: the implications of physiology for cancer.

Peter J Ratcliffe

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Review in The Journal of physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
169citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.4field-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.

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

169 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 292 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter J RatcliffeHenry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, Old Road Campus, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK. pjr@well.ox.ac.u
Centre for Human Genetics · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilBritish Heart Foundation RG/11/1/28684Cancer Research UKWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of regulation of the haematopoietic growth factor erythropoietin led to the unexpected discovery of a widespread system of direct oxygen sensing that regulates gene expression in animals. The oxygen-sensitive signal is generated by a series of non-haem Fe(II)- and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases that catalyse the post-translational hydroxylation of specific residues in the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). These hydroxylations promote both oxygen-dependent degradation and oxygen-dependent inactivation of HIF, but are suppressed in hypoxia, leading to the accumulation of HIF and assembly of an active transcriptional complex in hypoxic cells. Hypoxia-inducible factor activates an extensive transcriptional cascade that interfaces with other cell signalling pathways, microRNA networks and RNA-protein translational control systems. The relationship of these cellular signalling pathways to the integrated physiology of oxygen homeostasis and the implication of dysregulating these massive physiological pathways in diseases such as cancer are discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsDioxygenasesGene ExpressionHumansHypoxiaHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1NeoplasmsOxygenSignal TransductionDioxygenasesHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1Oxygen

Identifiers

PMID23401619
PMCPMC3634517
OpenAlexW1602845909

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