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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2013

Targeting tumor cell motility as a strategy against invasion and metastasis.

Alan Wells, Jelena Grahovac, Sarah Wheeler, Bo Ma, Douglas Lauffenburger

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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102citing 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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

5 authors.

Alan WellsDepartment of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh VAHS, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. wellsa@upmc.edu
Jelena Grahovac
Sarah Wheeler
Bo Ma
Douglas Lauffenburger

Funding

Spatial Segregation of Cell Functioning During MotilityR01GM069668 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WELLS, ALAN · 2004 to 2019
$4.7M
Dermal-Epidermal Communication during Wound HealingR01GM063569 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WELLS, ALAN · 2003 to 2018
$3.7M
Perfused 3D Tissue Surrogates for Complex Cell-Cell Communication SystemsR01EB010246 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRIFFITH, LINDA G · 2009 to 2013
$3.3M
Computational Modeling of Cell Migration in 3D MatricesR01GM081336 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2008 to 2011
$1.1M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB010246NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063569NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069668NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in diagnosis and treatment have rendered most solid tumors largely curable if they are diagnosed and treated before dissemination. However, once they spread beyond the initial primary location, these cancers are usually highly morbid, if not fatal. Thus, current efforts focus on both limiting initial dissemination and preventing secondary spread. There are two modes of tumor dissemination - invasion and metastasis - each leading to unique therapeutic challenges and likely to be driven by distinct mechanisms. However, these two forms of dissemination utilize some common strategies to accomplish movement from the primary tumor, establishment in an ectopic site, and survival therein. The adaptive behaviors of motile cancer cells provide an opening for therapeutic approaches if we understand the molecular, cellular, and tissue biology that underlie them. Herein, we review the signaling cascades and organ reactions that lead to dissemination, as these are non-genetic in nature, focusing on cell migration as the key to tumor progression. In this context, the cellular phenotype will also be discussed because the modes of migration are dictated by quantitative and physical aspects of the cell motility machinery.

Indexed as

Cell MovementHumansNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID23571046
PMCPMC3640670

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