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ReviewMolecular cancer2008

Apoptotic pathways in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Rainer Hamacher, Roland M Schmid, Dieter Saur, Günter Schneider

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In one paragraph

Review in Molecular cancer, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-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

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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Induction of Extrinsic Apoptotic Pathway in Pancreatic Cancer Cells byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Targeting apoptotic pathways for cancer therapy.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024
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  13. NOXA expression drives synthetic lethality to RUNX1 inhibition in pancreatic cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  20. Methyl lucidone induces apoptosis and GPharmaceutical biology · 2020
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rainer HamacherII. Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, München, Germany. rainer.hamacher@lrz.tu-muenchen.de
Roland M Schmid
Dieter Saur
Günter Schneider
Technical University of Munich · DEKlinikum rechts der Isar · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most common causes of cancer related death. Despite the advances in understanding of the molecular pathogenesis, pancreatic cancer remains a major unsolved health problem. Overall, the 5-year survival rate is less than 5% demonstrating the insufficiency of current therapies. Most cytotoxic therapies induce apoptosis and PDAC cells have evolved a plethora of molecular mechanisms to assure survival. We will present anti-apoptotic strategies working at the level of the death receptors, the mitochondria or involving the caspase inhibitors of the IAP family. Furthermore, the survival function of the phosphotidylinositol-3' kinase (PI3K)/AKT- and NF-kappaB-pathways are illustrated. A detailed molecular knowledge of the anti-apoptotic mechanisms of PDAC cells will help to improve therapies for this dismal disease and therapeutic strategies targeting the programmed cell death machinery are in early preclinical and clinical development.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionApoptosisCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalCell DeathHumansInhibitor of Apoptosis ProteinsModels, BiologicalOncogene Protein v-aktPancreatic NeoplasmsPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Receptors, Death DomainInhibitor of Apoptosis ProteinsOncogene Protein v-aktPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Receptors, Death Domain

Identifiers

PMID18652674
PMCPMC2515336
OpenAlexW2160685368

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