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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2020

Yuanyuan Man, Rusong Zhao, Xueying Gao, Yue Liu, Shigang Zhao, Gang Lu, Wai-Yee Chan, Peter C K Leung, Yuehong Bian

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yuanyuan ManCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Rusong ZhaoCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xueying GaoCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Yue LiuCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Shigang ZhaoCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Gang LuCUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Wai-Yee ChanCUHK-SDU Joint Laboratory on Reproductive Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Peter C K LeungDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Yuehong BianCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Shandong University · CNChinese University of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Women who undergo chronic exposure to excessive estrogen are at a high risk of developing breast cancer. Methods: Using lentiviruses as a vector, we stably overexpressed TOX3 in the ovarian granulosa cell line KGN, the cells where estradiol is primarily produced, to investigate its role in estrogen production as well as cell viability and apoptosis. RNA-Sequencing was applied to uncover the global gene expression upon TOX3 overexpression. Results: We observed an increased level of cell viability and a reduced cell apoptosis rate after TOX3 overexpression, and the level of estradiol in the cell culture supernatant also increased significantly. Gene set enrichment analysis of the transcriptome showed that the ovarian steroidogenesis pathway was significantly enriched. Similarly, pathway mapping using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes and Gene Ontology analyses also showed that TOX3 overexpression affects the ovarian steroidogenesis pathway. Further experiments showed that upregulated Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that TOX3 quantitatively and qualitatively stimulates estrogen synthesis by enhancing estrogen signaling pathway-related gene expression in ovarian granulosa cells. These findings suggest that TOX3 may play a vital role in the pathogenesis of breast cancer.

Indexed as

Apoptosis Regulatory ProteinsCell Line, TumorEstrogensFemaleGene Regulatory NetworksGranulosa CellsHumansOvarySequence Analysis, RNATrans-ActivatorsApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsEstrogensTOX3 protein, humanTrans-Activatorsbreast cancerestrogenGSEAKGNRNA-SeqTOX3/TNRC9

Identifiers

PMID33716953
PMCPMC7945945
OpenAlexW3130860190

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