Cited by 61Cancer, Hypoxia, and MetabolismAngiogenesis and VEGF in CancerImmune cells in cancer

Hypoxia-inducible factors as key regulators of tumor inflammation

Open access
Mamlouk, Soulafa, Wielockx, Ben·2013·International Journal of Cancer

Abstract

Low levels of oxygen or hypoxia is often an obstacle in health, particularly in pathological disorders like cancer. The main family of transcription factors responsible for cell survival and adaptation under strenuous conditions of hypoxia are the “hypoxia‐inducible factors” (HIFs). Together with prolyl hydroxylase domain enzymes (PHDs), HIFs regulates tumor angiogenesis, proliferation, invasion, metastasis, in addition to resistance to radiation and chemotherapy. Additionally, the entire HIF transcription cascade is involved in the “seventh” hallmark of cancer; inflammation. Studies have shown that hypoxia can influence tumor associated immune cells toward assisting in tumor proliferation, differentiation, vessel growth, distant metastasis and suppression of the immune response via cytokine expression alterations. These changes are not necessarily analogous to HIF's role in non‐cancer immune responses, where hypoxia often encourages a strong inflammatory response.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/ijc.27901

Cites

145 of 145 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • TAMs accumulate in hypoxic areas and the tumor microenvironment through HIF-1α activation, which promotes their adaptation to hypoxia.

    “For example, TAMs accumulate in hypoxic areas and the TME through HIF-1α activation, promoting TAM adaptation to hypoxia [2, 72].”

    From The HIF Axes in Cancer - Angiogenesis, Metabolism and Immune-Modulation (2025) · cites this paper as [72]

    The Macrophages section (page unavailable) says TAMs accumulate in hypoxic tumor regions, where they upregulate HIF-1α and HIF-2α. It does not say HIF-1α activation causes that accumulation or establishes that it promotes TAM adaptation to hypoxia; the Mini Review section instead links TAM migration in the models discussed to HIF-2α. (LLM, conf=0.88)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Su Y, Loos M, Giese N, et al. Prolyl hydroxylase-2 (PHD2) exerts tumor-suppressive activity in pancreatic cancer. Cancer 2012;118: 960-72.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Mamlouk, S., & Wielockx, B.
Affiliations
  • Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
  • Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (DE)
Corresponding author
Wielockx, Ben
Venue
International Journal of Cancer
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-11-02
Volume
132
Issue
12
Pages
2721-2729
ISSN
  • 0020-7136 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0215
OpenAlex
W1991886838
Cited by
61
References
145
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 2
FWCI
0.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • International Journal of Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Technische Universität Dresden
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
Keywords
hypoxia-inducible factor, tumor hypoxia, tumor inflammation, tumor angiogenesis, metastasis, chemoresistance, radioresistance (biology), tumor-infiltrating immune cells, cytokine expression, cancer hallmarks
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Inflammation, Neoplasm Metastasis, Neoplasms, Neovascularization, Pathologic, Signal Transduction, Cell Hypoxia, Zinc Fingers, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review