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Distal and proximal hypoxia response elements cooperate to regulate organ-specific erythropoietin gene expression

Orlando, Ilaria M. C. ; Lafleur, Véronique N. ; Storti, Federica ; Spielmann, Patrick ; Crowther, Lisa ; Santambrogio, Sara ; Schödel, Johannes ; Hoogewijs, David ; Mole, David R. ; Wenger, Roland H.

In: Haematologica, 2019, vol. 105, no. 12, p. 2774–2784

While it is well-established that distal hypoxia response elements (HREs) regulate hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) target genes such as erythropoietin (Epo), an interplay between multiple distal and proximal (promoter) HREs has not been described so far. Hepatic Epo expression is regulated by a HRE located downstream of the EPO gene, but this 3' HRE is dispensable for renal EPO gene...

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Autologous stem cell transplantation: leukapheresis product has anti-angiogenic effects in vivo correlating with neutrophil-derived VEGFR1

Luethy, Anita ; Stenner, Frank ; Lohri, Corinne ; Muller, Christoph ; Samaras, Panagiotis ; Steiner, Rudolf ; Broek, Maries Van Den ; Mischo, Axel ; Renner, Christoph ; Knuth, Alexander ; Rüegg, Curzio ; Wenger, Roland H. ; Zweifel, Martin

In: Anticancer Research, 2011, vol. 31, no. 10, p. 3115-3124

Background: High-dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is used for the treatment of hemato-oncologic malignancies. In this study, we measured the effect of HDC/ASCT on plasma concentrations of antiangiogenic soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (sVEGFR1) and of leukapheresis products (LP) and patient serum on chick chorioallantoic...