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ReviewAmerican journal of clinical and experimental urology2014

Vicious cycle of TGF-β signaling in tumor progression and metastasis.

Qiang Zhang, Nengwang Yu, Chung Lee

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In one paragraph

Review in American journal of clinical and experimental urology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. The Role of PAR2 in TGF-β1-Induced ERK Activation and Cell Motility.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017
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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.

Qiang ZhangDepartment of Urology, Northwestern University School of Medicine Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Nengwang YuDepartment of Urology, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command Jinan 250031, Shandong Province, China.
Chung LeeDepartment of Urology, Northwestern University School of Medicine Chicago, IL 60611, USA ; Department of Surgery, North Shore University Health System, Evanston Hospital Evanston, IL 60201, USA ; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Department of Urology, University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
General Hospital of Jinan Military Command · CNNorthShore University HealthSystem · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

SUPPRESSIVE ROLE OF ANDROGEN RESPONSE GENE CALRETICULIN IN PROSTATE CANCERP50CA090386 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI CRAWFORD, SUSAN · 2001 to 2013
$25.1M
Evaluation of Predictive Signatures of Prostate CancerU01CA114810 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI MERCOLA, DAN · 2005 to 2009
$8.2M
The Prostate Cancer Tumor Microenvironment Exhibits Differentially Expressed GeneU01CA152738 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LEE, CHUNG, MERCOLA, DAN · 2010 to 2015
$3.6M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA090386NCI NIH HHS U01 CA114810NCI NIH HHS U01 CA152738
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TGF-β is an important biological mediator. It regulates a wide range of functions including embryonic development, wound healing, organ development, immuno-modulation, and cancer progression. Interestingly, TGF-β is known to inhibit cell growth in benign cells but promote progression in cancer cells, a phenomenon known as TGF-β paradox. TGF-β stimulation in cancer cells leads to a differential Erk activation, which srves as the basis of TGF-β paradox between benign and cancer cells. The critical events of TGF-β mediated Erk activation are suppressed TBRs and elevated TGF-β in tumor cells but not in benign cells. These events form the basis of the "vicious cycle of TGF-β signaling". The term "vicious cycle", implies that, with each advancing cycle of TGF-β signaling, the tumor will accumulate more TGF-β and will be more "aggressive" than that of the previous cycle. Understanding this vicious cycle of TGF-β signaling in tumor progression and metastasis will help us to predict indolent from aggressive cancers and will help us to develop novel anti-cancer strategies.

Indexed as

CancerErknegative feedbackpositive feedbackSmadTGF-β auto-inductionTGF-β receptorsTGF-β signalingvicious cycle

Identifiers

PMID25374917
PMCPMC4219298
OpenAlexW1704554323

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