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ReviewJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2008

Caveolin-1: an ambiguous partner in cell signalling and cancer.

Andrew F G Quest, Jorge L Gutierrez-Pajares, Vicente A Torres

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Review in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
100citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

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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

100 citing papers in PubMed, 182 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew F G QuestFONDAP Centre for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. aquest@med.uchile.cl
Jorge L Gutierrez-Pajares
Vicente A Torres
University of Chile · CLUniversidad de Los Andes, Chile · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caveolae are small plasma membrane invaginations that have been implicated in a variety of functions including transcytosis, potocytosis and cholesterol transport and signal transduction. The major protein component of this compartment is a family of proteins called caveolins. Experimental data obtained in knockout mice have provided unequivocal evidence for a requirement of caveolins to generate morphologically detectable caveolae structures. However, expression of caveolins is not sufficient per seto assure the presence of these structures. With respect to other roles attributed to caveolins in the regulation of cellular function, insights are even less clear. Here we will consider, more specifically, the data concerning the ambiguous roles ascribed to caveolin-1 in signal transduction and cancer. In particular, evidence indicating that caveolin-1 function is cell context dependent will be discussed.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsCaveolin 1HumansNeoplasmsCaveolin 1

Identifiers

PMID18400052
PMCPMC3865655
OpenAlexW2077318471

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