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ReviewAmerican journal of physiology. Cell physiology2014

Physical biology in cancer. 3. The role of cell glycocalyx in vascular transport of circulating tumor cells.

Michael J Mitchell, Michael R King

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Review in American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
53citing 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Glyconectin Cell Adhesion Epitope, β-d-GlcMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael J MitchellDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Michael R King
Cornell University · US

Funding

TRANS-NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143876 · NCI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI SHULER, MICHAEL L · 2009 to 2014
$12.6M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood are known to adhere to the luminal surface of the microvasculature via receptor-mediated adhesion, which contributes to the spread of cancer metastasis to anatomically distant organs. Such interactions between ligands on CTCs and endothelial cell-bound surface receptors are sensitive to receptor-ligand distances at the nanoscale. The sugar-rich coating expressed on the surface of CTCs and endothelial cells, known as the glycocalyx, serves as a physical structure that can control the spacing and, thus, the availability of such receptor-ligand interactions. The cancer cell glycocalyx can also regulate the ability of therapeutic ligands to bind to CTCs in the bloodstream. Here, we review the role of cell glycocalyx on the adhesion and therapeutic treatment of CTCs in the bloodstream.

Indexed as

Chemical PhenomenaAnimalsBiological TransportEndothelium, VascularGlycocalyxHumansNeoplastic Cells, Circulatingadhesiondrug deliverymetastasismicrovasculature

Identifiers

PMID24133067
PMCPMC3919988
OpenAlexW2155728422

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