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ReviewChemistry & biology2014

Glycotherapy: new advances inspire a reemergence of glycans in medicine.

Jason E Hudak, Carolyn R Bertozzi

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Review in Chemistry & biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
81citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 233 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The Intersection of Glycosylation and Ferroptosis in Cancer.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. Regenerative Glycopeptide Scaffolds Enhance BMP-4 Activity To Treat Pediatric Glioma.Regenerative engineering and translational medicine · 2025
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21 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jason E HudakDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Carolyn R BertozziDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: crb@berkeley.edu.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Univ of Calif Berkeley Chemistry-Biology Interface ProgramT32GM066698 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI CHANG, CHRISTOPHER J., FRANCIS, MATTHEW B · 2004 to 2023
$7.5M
Investigations of Golgi EnzymesR01GM059907 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BERTOZZI, CAROLYN · 1999 to 2016
$5.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059907NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM59907NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM066698
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The beginning of the 20(th) century marked the dawn of modern medicine with glycan-based therapies at the forefront. However, glycans quickly became overshadowed as DNA- and protein-focused treatments became readily accessible. The recent development of new tools and techniques to study and produce structurally defined carbohydrates has spurred renewed interest in the therapeutic applications of glycans. This review focuses on advances within the past decade that are bringing glycan-based treatments back to the forefront of medicine and the technologies that are driving these efforts. These include the use of glycans themselves as therapeutic molecules as well as engineering protein and cell surface glycans to suit clinical applications. Glycan therapeutics offer a rich and promising frontier for developments in the academic, biopharmaceutical, and medical fields.

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Identifiers

PMID24269151
PMCPMC4111574
OpenAlexW2093331947

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