Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29254177›Full record

ArticleOncotarget2017

MAPK, NFκB, and VEGF signaling pathways regulate breast cancer liver metastasis.

Xinhua Chen, Zhihong Zheng, Limin Chen, Hongyu Zheng

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Article in Oncotarget, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xinhua ChenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Fujian Cancer Hospital & Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Zhihong ZhengDepartment of Hematology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Limin ChenDepartment of Medical Oncology, Fujian Cancer Hospital & Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Hongyu ZhengDepartment of Medical Oncology, Fujian Cancer Hospital & Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Fujian Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the molecular pathways regulating breast cancer liver metastasis. We identified 48 differentially expressed genes (4 upregulated and 44 downregulated) by analyzing microarray dataset GSE62598 from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). We constructed a genetic interaction network with 84 nodes and 237 edges using the String consortium database. The network was reliably robust with a clustering coefficient (cc) of 0.598 and protein-protein interaction (PPI) enrichment

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breast cancerinteraction networklivermetastasismicroarray

Identifiers

PMID29254177
PMCPMC5731887
OpenAlexW2754040259

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