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ReviewBMC medicine2013

The sweet and sour of serological glycoprotein tumor biomarker quantification.

Uros Kuzmanov, Hari Kosanam, Eleftherios P Diamandis

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Review in BMC medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Aberrant sialylation in ovarian cancers.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2020
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  15. Preparation and Nanoencapsulation of Lectin fromBioMed research international · 2020
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  17. Glycosylation and its implications in breast cancer.Expert review of proteomics · 2019
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  19. N-glycan microheterogeneity regulates interactions of plasma proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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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.

Uros KuzmanovDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, 6th floor, 60 Murray Street, Box 32, Toronto, ON M5T 3L9, Canada.
Hari Kosanam
Eleftherios P Diamandis
Mount Sinai Hospital · CAUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant and dysregulated protein glycosylation is a well-established event in the process of oncogenesis and cancer progression. Years of study on the glycobiology of cancer have been focused on the development of clinically viable diagnostic applications of this knowledge. However, for a number of reasons, there has been only sparse and varied success. The causes of this range from technical to biological issues that arise when studying protein glycosylation and attempting to apply it to practical applications. This review focuses on the pitfalls, advances, and future directions to be taken in the development of clinically applicable quantitative assays using glycan moieties from serum-based proteins as analytes. Topics covered include the development and progress of applications of lectins, mass spectrometry, and other technologies towards this purpose. Slowly but surely, novel applications of established and development of new technologies will eventually provide us with the tools to reach the ultimate goal of quantification of the full scope of heterogeneity associated with the glycosylation of biomarker candidate glycoproteins in a clinically applicable fashion.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomarkers, TumorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHumansMass SpectrometryNeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorGlycoproteins

Identifiers

PMID23390961
PMCPMC3751898
OpenAlexW2138016708

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