Oxygen sensing, hypoxia-inducible factors, and disease pathophysiology

GL Semenza - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are transcriptional activators that function as master
regulators of oxygen homeostasis, which is disrupted in disorders affecting the circulatory …

HIF1α and HIF2α: sibling rivalry in hypoxic tumour growth and progression

B Keith, RS Johnson, MC Simon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are broadly expressed in human cancers, and HIF1α and
HIF2α were previously suspected to promote tumour progression through largely …

Defining the role of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 in cancer biology and therapeutics

GL Semenza - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
Adaptation of cancer cells to their microenvironment is an important driving force in the
clonal selection that leads to invasive and metastatic disease. O 2 concentrations are …

The role of hypoxia-inducible factors in tumorigenesis

EB Rankin, AJ Giaccia - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2008 - nature.com
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are essential mediators of the cellular oxygen-signaling
pathway. They are heterodimeric transcription factors consisting of an oxygen-sensitive …

Regulation of cancer cell metabolism by hypoxia-inducible factor 1

GL Semenza - Seminars in cancer biology, 2009 - Elsevier
The induction of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) activity, either as a result of intratumoral
hypoxia or loss-of-function mutations in the VHL gene, leads to a dramatic reprogramming of …

Regulation of angiogenesis by hypoxia-inducible factor 1

K Hirota, GL Semenza - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2006 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand that occurs in cancer and in
ischemic cardiovascular disease. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) was originally identified …

Molecular targeting of hypoxia in radiotherapy

S Rey, L Schito, M Koritzinsky, BG Wouters - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hypoxia (low O 2) is an essential microenvironmental driver of phenotypic diversity in
human solid cancers. Hypoxic cancer cells hijack evolutionarily conserved, O 2-sensitive …

Evaluation of HIF-1 inhibitors as anticancer agents

GL Semenza - Drug discovery today, 2007 - Elsevier
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) regulates the transcription of many genes involved in key
aspects of cancer biology, including immortalization, maintenance of stem cell pools, cellular …

Pro-angiogenic activity and vasculogenic mimicry in the tumor microenvironment by leptin in cancer

AK Herrera-Vargas, E Garcia-Rodriguez… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2021 - Elsevier
The acquired ability to induce the formation of a functional vasculature is a hallmark of
cancer. Blood vessels in tumors are formed through various mechanisms, among the most …

Interfering with tumor hypoxia for radiotherapy optimization

I Telarovic, RH Wenger, M Pruschy - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Hypoxia in solid tumors is an important predictor of treatment resistance and poor clinical
outcome. The significance of hypoxia in the development of resistance to radiotherapy has …