Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32184660›Full record

ArticleCancer management and research2020

Shh Overexpression Is Correlated with GRP78 and AR Expression in Primary Prostate Cancer: Clinicopathological Features and Outcomes in a Chinese Cohort.

Xiangyu Zhang, Yanmin Zhang, Fanzhong Lin, Xin Shi, Longquan Xiang, Liang Li

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cancer management and research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiangyu Zhang *Department of Pathology, Jining First People's Hospital, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-0170-0837
Yanmin Zhang *Department of Pathology, Gaomi People's Hospital, Gaomi 261500, People's Republic of China.
Fanzhong LinDepartment of Pathology, Jining First People's Hospital, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, People's Republic of China.
Xin ShiDepartment of Pathology, Jining First People's Hospital, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, People's Republic of China.
Longquan XiangDepartment of Pathology, Jining First People's Hospital, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, People's Republic of China.
Liang LiDepartment of Pathology, Jining First People's Hospital, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, People's Republic of China.
Jining First People's Hospital · CNGaozhou People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionShh plays an important role in prostate cancer progression, but its correlation with GRP78 and AR is elusive.

methodsThe study included 539 patients in total, of which 443 had primary prostate carcinoma and 96 patients had benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The clinicopathologic features, histologic scores of protein expression, and correlations between protein and disease state were studied in this cohort. Kaplan-Meier and Pearson correlation analyses were used to compare measures between groups. We performed immunohistochemistry to evaluate the expression of the Shh protein in benign prostatic hyperplasia (n=96) and prostate cancer (Gleason scores ≤6 [n=399] or ≥7 [n=44]). We quantified the expression of Shh, AR, and GRP78 using the weighted histoscore method, studied the correlation between Shh expression and AR and GRP78, and evaluated the impact of Shh protein expression on patient survival.

resultsShh expression was significantly higher in prostate cancer with Gleason scores ≥7 than in cancer with lower Gleason scores or benign hyperplasia and was much higher in AR-positive cancer than in AR-negative cancer. Shh is overexpressed in high-grade prostate cancer and is positively correlated with the expression of both GRP78 and AR.

conclusionTherefore, Shh may be a useful prognostic marker and therapeutic target for prostate cancer.

Indexed as

ARGRP78prostate cancerShhsurvival analysis

Identifiers

PMID32184660
PMCPMC7060775
OpenAlexW3009299965

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.