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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2021

Analysis of Multiple Human Tumor Cases Reveals the Carcinogenic Effects of PKP3.

Shujie Ruan, Jingping Shi, Ming Wang, Zhechen Zhu

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shujie RuanThe First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing 210029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9872-5063
Jingping ShiThe First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing 210029, China.
Ming WangThe First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing 210029, China.
Zhechen ZhuThe First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing 210029, China.
Jiangsu Province Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plakophilins (PKPs) act as a key regulator of different signaling programs and control a variety of cellular processes ranging from transcription, protein synthesis, growth, proliferation, and tumor development. The function and possible mechanism of PKP3 in ovarian cancer (OC) remain unknown. It is extremely important to investigate the expression and prognostic values of PKP3, as well as their possible mechanisms, and immune infiltration in OC. Therefore, in this paper we explored the potential oncogenic role of PKP3 in 33 tumors based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets. The result outcomes showed that PKP3 is highly expressed in most cancers, and the expression level and prognosis of PKP3 showed little significance in cancer patients. Moreover, oncologists have found that members of the plakophilin family have different degrees of abnormality in ovarian cancer. PKP3 played a key part in carcinogenesis and aggressiveness of OC as well as malignant biological activity and can be used as a biomarker for early diagnosis and prognosis evaluation in OC.

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Ovarian NeoplasmsPlakophilinsFemaleHumansPrognosisPKP3 protein, humanPlakophilins

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PMID34733461
PMCPMC8560240
OpenAlexW3208391430

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