Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16892078›Full record

ReviewOncogene2006

Glycolysis inhibition for anticancer treatment.

H Pelicano, D S Martin, R-H Xu, P Huang

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Review in Oncogene, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 681 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

681 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

H PelicanoThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
D S Martin
R-H Xu
P Huang

Funding

Superoxide, ROS, and novel targets for cancer therapyR01CA085563 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI HUANG, PENG · 2001 to 2016
$3.1M
p53 in Cellular Response to ROS-Mediated DNA DamageR01CA100428 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI HUANG, PENG · 2003 to 2012
$2.7M
Mitochondrial defects and Cancer TherapeuticsR01CA109041 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI HUANG, PENG · 2004 to 2008
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS CA085563NCI NIH HHS CA100428NCI NIH HHS CA109041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most cancer cells exhibit increased glycolysis and use this metabolic pathway for generation of ATP as a main source of their energy supply. This phenomenon is known as the Warburg effect and is considered as one of the most fundamental metabolic alterations during malignant transformation. In recent years, there are significant progresses in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the potential therapeutic implications. Biochemical and molecular studies suggest several possible mechanisms by which this metabolic alteration may evolve during cancer development. These mechanisms include mitochondrial defects and malfunction, adaptation to hypoxic tumor microenvironment, oncogenic signaling, and abnormal expression of metabolic enzymes. Importantly, the increased dependence of cancer cells on glycolytic pathway for ATP generation provides a biochemical basis for the design of therapeutic strategies to preferentially kill cancer cells by pharmacological inhibition of glycolysis. Several small molecules have emerged that exhibit promising anticancer activity in vitro and in vivo, as single agent or in combination with other therapeutic modalities. The glycolytic inhibitors are particularly effective against cancer cells with mitochondrial defects or under hypoxic conditions, which are frequently associated with cellular resistance to conventional anticancer drugs and radiation therapy. Because increased aerobic glycolysis is commonly seen in a wide spectrum of human cancers and hypoxia is present in most tumor microenvironment, development of novel glycolytic inhibitors as a new class of anticancer agents is likely to have broad therapeutic applications.

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Antineoplastic AgentsGlycolysisHumansNeoplasmsAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID16892078

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