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ReviewToxins2010

Toxin-based therapeutic approaches.

Assaf Shapira, Itai Benhar

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Review in Toxins, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Taming Bacterial Toxins into an Anticancer Platform.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2025
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  10. AB Toxins as High-Affinity Ligands for Cell Targeting in Cancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Review
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  13. Targeting the Inside of Cells with Biologicals: Toxin Routes in a Therapeutic Context.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2023
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  19. Harnessing the Natural Toxic Metabolites in COVID-19.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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8 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Assaf ShapiraDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. assafsha@yahoo.com.
Itai Benhar
Tel Aviv University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein toxins confer a defense against predation/grazing or a superior pathogenic competence upon the producing organism. Such toxins have been perfected through evolution in poisonous animals/plants and pathogenic bacteria. Over the past five decades, a lot of effort has been invested in studying their mechanism of action, the way they contribute to pathogenicity and in the development of antidotes that neutralize their action. In parallel, many research groups turned to explore the pharmaceutical potential of such toxins when they are used to efficiently impair essential cellular processes and/or damage the integrity of their target cells. The following review summarizes major advances in the field of toxin based therapeutics and offers a comprehensive description of the mode of action of each applied toxin.

Indexed as

Pharmaceutical PreparationsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsBacterial ToxinsBiological EvolutionCell DeathDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalFemaleGenes, Transgenic, SuicideGenetic TherapyHumansImmunotoxinsMalePlant ExtractsPlants, ToxicToxins, BiologicalAntineoplastic AgentsBacterial ToxinsImmunotoxinsPharmaceutical PreparationsPlant ExtractsToxins, Biologicalanthraxdiphtheria toxinimmunotoxinspseudomonas exotoxin Aricinsuicide genetargetingtoxins

Identifiers

PMID22069564
PMCPMC3153180
OpenAlexW1989269073

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