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ReviewCarcinogenesis2015

To be an ally or an adversary in bladder cancer: the NF-κB story has not unfolded.

Neelam Mukherjee, Tiffani J Houston, Eduardo Cardenas, Rita Ghosh

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Review in Carcinogenesis, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 44 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Neelam MukherjeeDepartment of Urology.
Tiffani J HoustonDepartment of Urology.
Eduardo CardenasDepartment of Urology.
Rita GhoshDepartment of Urology, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Cancer Therapy and Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA ghoshr@uthscsa.edu.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

Cancer Biology Training ProgramT32CA148724 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Pei Wang, Feng-Chun Yang · 2011 to 2026
$3.3M
Oxidative stress in prostate cancer: Efficacy of antioxidants in Nkx3.1; Pten modR01CA149516 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI GHOSH, RITA · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
Capsaicin for chemoprevention of transition cell carcinoma of the bladderR03CA136058 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI GHOSH, RITA · 2008 to 2009
$148k
NCI NIH HHS CA136058NCI NIH HHS R01CA149516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signaling and regulation of transcription factor nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) has been an area of extensive research since its first discovery nearly three decades ago. Members of the NF-κB family have been reported to critically mediate a multitude of responses in normal cells. Therefore, it is not surprising that NF-κB function can go awry and result in pathological conditions including cancer. Despite its critical importance, the functional role of NF-κB has not received the same attention in cancers of all tissue types. In the case of cancer of the urinary bladder, which is the second most common urologic cancer, the involvement of NF-κB in the development of superficial or muscle invasive disease and during cancer recurrence is rudimentary at best. Nuclear expression of p65/RelA is seen in bladder cancer patients and has been found to negatively affect survival of patients with superficial and muscle invasive disease. Despite these observations, the exact mechanism of NF-κB upregulation and function remains unknown. Furthermore, the emergence of a tumor suppressive role for NF-κB in recent years suggests that the family may play the role of a double-edged sword in cancer, which remains unexplored in bladder cancer. The challenge now is to delineate the increasing complexity of this pathway in the development and progression of bladder cancer. Here, we review key aspects of the current knowledge of signaling and regulation by the NF-κB family focusing on its controversial role in cancer and highlight the importance of studying NF-κB in bladder cancer in particular.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNF-kappa BProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalSignal TransductionUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsNF-kappa B

Identifiers

PMID25543121
PMCPMC4425835
OpenAlexW2103774067

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