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ArticleBioscience reports2020

Prolactin may serve as a regulator to promote vocal fold wound healing.

Haizhou Wang, Xueyan Li, Jieyu Lu, Paul Jones, Wen Xu

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Preclinical Vocal Fold and Airway Injury Models: A Scoping Review.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Haizhou WangDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Xueyan LiDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Jieyu LuDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Paul JonesDepartment of Biology Solution, AIC LLC, Rockville, MD 20850, U.S.A.
Wen XuDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
Beijing Tongren Hospital · CNR2M Solution (Italy) · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reduced prolactin (PRL) has been shown to delay wound healing with a limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Here, we aim to explore the role of PRL in the repair of vocal fold (VF) injury. A microarray was used to detect the expressed levels of PRL in rat VF tissue at 1, 4, and 8 weeks after VF injury compared with normal uninjured rats. Then, a systematic bioinformatics analysis has been conducted to explore the literature-based biology network and signaling pathways involved in the repair of VF injury. The expression of PRL was significantly decreased in all VF injury groups (week 1, 4, and 8) compared with the control group (F stats = 280.34; P=4.88e-14), with no significant difference among the three VF injury groups (F stats = 1.97; P=0.18). Wounding has been shown to interfere with both PRL-promoting and inhibiting pathways that were involved in wound healing, including 11 PRL inhibitors and 6 PRL promoters. Our results reveal decreased PRL expression levels in VF injury, which is not in favor of the wound healing. The pathways identified may help in understanding the role of PRL as a treatment target for VF wound healing.

Indexed as

AnimalsComputational BiologyDisease Models, AnimalHumansMaleProlactinRatsSignal TransductionVocal CordsWound HealingProlactincell functiongene expressionsignaling pathwayVocal fold injury

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PMID32667625
PMCPMC7376669
OpenAlexW3043526948

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