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ReviewJournal of neurogastroenterology and motility2016

Multi-phenotypic Role of Serum Response Factor in the Gastrointestinal System.

Seungil Ro

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Review in Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Phenotypic switching of gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells and the regulatory role of macrophages: a literature review.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  6. RNA m6A methylation regulators in ovarian cancer.Cancer cell international · 2021
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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.

Seungil RoDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA.
University of Nevada, Reno · US

Funding

Roles of DNA methylation in gastrointestinal smooth muscle cellsR01DK094886 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI RO, SEUNGIL · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
Engineering of functional smooth muscle cells from gastrointestinal myofibroblastR01DK103055 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI RO, SEUNGIL · 2015 to 2018
$1.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK094886NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK103055
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serum response factor (SRF) is a master transcription factor of the actin cytoskeleton that binds to highly conserved CArG boxes located within the majority of smooth muscle cell (SMC)-restricted promoters/enhancers. Although most studies of SRF focus on skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and vascular SMCs, SRF research has recently expanded into the gastrointestinal (GI) system. Genome scale analyses of GI SMC transcriptome and CArG boxes (CArGome) have identified new SRF target genes. In addition to circular and longitudinal smooth muscle layers, SRF is also expressed in GI mucosa and cancers. In the GI tract, SRF is the central regulator of genes involved in apoptosis, dedifferentiation, proliferation, and migration of cells. Since SRF is the cell phenotypic modulator, it may play an essential role in the development of myopathy, hypertrophy, ulcers, gastric and colon cancers within the GI tract. Given the multifunctional role displayed by SRF in the digestive system, SRF has received more attention emerging as a potential therapeutic target. This review summarizes the findings in SRF research pertaining to the GI tract and provides valuable insight into future directions.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal diseasesKnockoutMicroRNAsMyocytesSerum response factorSmooth muscle

Identifiers

PMID26727951
PMCPMC4819857
OpenAlexW2329247905

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