Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30809789›Full record

ReviewSeminars in liver disease2019

Inflammation and Liver Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.

Yoon Mee Yang, So Yeon Kim, Ekihiro Seki

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In one paragraph

Review in Seminars in liver disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 279 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
279citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
30.8field-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

279 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 443 citations in OpenAlex.

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219 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoon Mee YangDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
So Yeon KimDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Ekihiro SekiDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

LPS binding to TLR4 regulates hepatic stellate cell activation and fibrosisR01DK085252 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI EKIHIRO SEKI · 2011 to 2026
$4.8M
Role of TLR7 in progression and treatment of alcoholic hepatitisR01AA027036 · NIAAA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI SEKI, EKIHIRO · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Multidisciplinary Pulmonary Research Training ProgramT32HL134637 · NHLBI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI NOBLE, PAUL WESLEY · 2017 to 2021
$1.3M
Alcohol enhances colon cancer liver metastasis via cancer-associated fibroblastsR21AA025841 · NIAAA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI SEKI, EKIHIRO · 2017 to 2018
$459k
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL134637NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA027036NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA025841NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK085252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with chronic inflammation and fibrosis arising from different etiologies, including hepatitis B and C and alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases. The inflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 and their downstream targets nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 drive inflammation-associated HCC. Further, while adaptive immunity promotes immune surveillance to eradicate early HCC, adaptive immune cells, such as CD8

Indexed as

ApoptosisCarcinogenesisCarcinoma, HepatocellularFemaleHepatic Stellate CellsHepatitis, Viral, HumanHumansInflammationLiver Cirrhosis, AlcoholicLiver NeoplasmsMaleNF-kappa BNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseSex DistributionTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaNF-kappa BTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID30809789
PMCPMC6616367
OpenAlexW2909506514

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Registered trials

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