Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32983414›Full record

ReviewF1000Research2020

Erythropoietin regulation of red blood cell production: from bench to bedside and back.

Senthil Velan Bhoopalan, Lily Jun-Shen Huang, Mitchell J Weiss

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. The N6-methyladenosine (mBritish journal of haematology · 2026
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Peptide-Based Approaches for Pain Relief and Healing in Wounds.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Review
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Red Blood Cell-Mediated Enhancement of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Functions via a Hes1-Dependent Pathway.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
    Article
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Evaluation of Erythropoietin and Erythropoietin Receptor Levels in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Cross-sectional Study.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
    Article
  20. Review

1 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Senthil Velan BhoopalanDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS #355, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1402-6549
Lily Jun-Shen HuangDepartment of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Mitchell J WeissDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS #355, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

VIROSOME/PROTEOLIPOSOME MEDIATED GENE TRANSFERP01HL053749 · NHLBI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI WEISS, MITCHELL J · 1994 to 2022
$43.6M
JAK2 signaling in erythropoiesisR01HL089966 · NHLBI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LILY JUNSHEN HUANG · 2007 to 2026
$7.4M
Trim58 and the Ubiquitin Proteasome System in Erythro-megakaryopoiesisR01DK061692 · NIDDK · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI WEISS, MITCHELL J · 2002 to 2018
$5.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL053749NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL089966NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK061692
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 50 years of efforts to identify the major cytokine responsible for red blood cell (RBC) production (erythropoiesis) led to the identification of erythropoietin (EPO) in 1977 and its receptor (EPOR) in 1989, followed by three decades of rich scientific discovery. We now know that an elaborate oxygen-sensing mechanism regulates the production of EPO, which in turn promotes the maturation and survival of erythroid progenitors. Engagement of the EPOR by EPO activates three interconnected signaling pathways that drive RBC production via diverse downstream effectors and simultaneously trigger negative feedback loops to suppress signaling activity. Together, the finely tuned mechanisms that drive endogenous EPO production and facilitate its downstream activities have evolved to maintain RBC levels in a narrow physiological range and to respond rapidly to erythropoietic stresses such as hypoxia or blood loss. Examination of these pathways has elucidated the genetics of numerous inherited and acquired disorders associated with deficient or excessive RBC production and generated valuable drugs to treat anemia, including recombinant human EPO and more recently the prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, which act partly by stimulating endogenous EPO synthesis. Ongoing structure-function studies of the EPOR and its essential partner, tyrosine kinase JAK2, suggest that it may be possible to generate new "designer" drugs that control selected subsets of cytokine receptor activities for therapeutic manipulation of hematopoiesis and treatment of blood cancers.

Indexed as

ErythropoiesisErythrocytesErythropoietinHumansJanus Kinase 2Receptors, ErythropoietinSignal TransductionErythropoietinJanus Kinase 2Receptors, ErythropoietinErythropoiesiserythropoietin receptor signalinghypoxia-induced transcription factorJAK2Janus Kinase 2prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor

Identifiers

PMID32983414
PMCPMC7503180
OpenAlexW3087672831

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
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.