Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16791265›Full record

ReviewLeukemia2006

Membrane-derived microvesicles: important and underappreciated mediators of cell-to-cell communication.

J Ratajczak, M Wysoczynski, F Hayek, A Janowska-Wieczorek, M Z Ratajczak

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Review in Leukemia, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 672 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
672citing papers in PubMed
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

672 citing papers in PubMed, 1,330 citations in OpenAlex.

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612 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

J RatajczakThe Stem Cell Biology Program, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA. mzrata01@louisville.edu
M Wysoczynski
F Hayek
A Janowska-Wieczorek
M Z Ratajczak
University of Louisville · USUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

The CXCR4-SDF-1 Axis in Metastatic RhabdomyosarcomaR01CA106281 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI RATAJCZAK, MARIUSZ Z · 2005 to 2009
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA106281-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Normal and malignant cells shed from their surface membranes as well as secrete from the endosomal membrane compartment circular membrane fragments called microvesicles (MV). MV that are released from viable cells are usually smaller in size compared to the apoptotic bodies derived from damaged cells and unlike them do not contain fragmented DNA. Growing experimental evidence indicates that MV are an underappreciated component of the cell environment and play an important pleiotropic role in many biological processes. Generally, MV are enriched in various bioactive molecules and may (i) directly stimulate cells as a kind of 'signaling complex', (ii) transfer membrane receptors, proteins, mRNA and organelles (e.g., mitochondria) between cells and finally (iii) deliver infectious agents into cells (e.g., human immuno deficiency virus, prions). In this review, we discuss the pleiotropic effects of MV that are important for communication between cells, as well as the role of MV in carcinogenesis, coagulation, immune responses and modulation of susceptibility/infectability of cells to retroviruses or prions.

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Cell CommunicationCell MembraneDisease ProgressionHumansNeoplasmsOrganelles

Identifiers

PMID16791265
OpenAlexW2086275775

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