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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022

Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha is a driving mechanism linking chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to lung cancer.

Yuan-Rui Xu, An-Long Wang, Ya-Qing Li

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
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  3. COPD-Lung Cancer Comorbidity: Mechanistic Insights and Precision Oncology Implications.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
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  4. The role and mechanisms of the HIF-1 signaling pathway in LC-COPD.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuan-Rui XuThe Second Clinical Medical College, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
An-Long WangCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Ya-Qing LiCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNZhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), irrespective of their smoking history, are more likely to develop lung cancer than the general population. This is mainly because COPD is characterized by chronic persistent inflammation and hypoxia, which are the risk factors for lung cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying this observation are still unknown. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF-1α) plays an important role in the crosstalk that exists between inflammation and hypoxia. Furthermore, HIF-1α is the main regulator of somatic adaptation to hypoxia and is highly expressed in hypoxic environments. In this review, we discuss the molecular aspects of the crosstalk between hypoxia and inflammation, showing that HIF-1α is an important signaling pathway that drives COPD progression to lung cancer. Here, we also provide an overview of HIF-1α and its principal regulatory mechanisms, briefly describe HIF-1α-targeted therapy in lung cancer, and summarize substances that may be used to target HIF-1α at the level of COPD-induced inflammation.

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chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasehypoxia-inducible factor 1hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alphalung cancernon-small cell lung cancer

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PMID36338690
PMCPMC9634253
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