Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22128289›Full record

ArticleTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2011

An overview of the c-MET signaling pathway.

Shawna Leslie Organ, Ming-Sound Tsao

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Article in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 478 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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478citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

478 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 854 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Telisotuzumab Vedotin Monotherapy in Patients With Previously Treated c-Met Protein-Overexpressing Advanced NonsquamousJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2024
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  16. Met regulates endoderm migration in zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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418 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.

Shawna Leslie OrganOntario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Ming-Sound Tsao
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

c-MET is a receptor tyrosine kinase that, after binding with its ligand, hepatocyte growth factor, activates a wide range of different cellular signaling pathways, including those involved in proliferation, motility, migration and invasion. Although c-MET is important in the control of tissue homeostasis under normal physiological conditions, it has also been found to be aberrantly activated in human cancers via mutation, amplification or protein overexpression. This paper provides an overview of the c-MET signaling pathway, including its role in the development of cancers, and provides a rationale for targeting the pathway as a possible treatment option.

Indexed as

cancerc-METhepatocyte growth factor (HGF)METreceptor tyrosine kinasesignaling

Identifiers

PMID22128289
PMCPMC3225017
OpenAlexW2111842868

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