Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25727150›Full record

ReviewAdvances in cancer research2015

Glycosylation and liver cancer.

Anand Mehta, Harmin Herrera, Timothy Block

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Review in Advances in cancer research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
80citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
20.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

80 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 134 citations in OpenAlex.

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20 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anand MehtaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Harmin HerreraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Timothy BlockDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Drexel University · US

Funding

Predicting HCC through GlycomicsR01CA120206 · NCI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI MEHTA, ANAND S. · 2006 to 2016
$4.3M
Aberrantly secreted glycoproteins as markers of liver cancerU01CA168856 · NCI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI MEHTA, ANAND S. · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA120206NCI NIH HHS U01 CA168856
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer, but the second leading cause of cancer death, in the world, with more than 700,000 fatalities annually. The major etiology of liver cancer is infection with an hepatotropic virus such as hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus infection. While chronic viral infection remains the main cause of liver disease and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), rates of nonviral-associated HCC are occurring at an alarmingly increasing rate. Like many cancers, survival rates are closely associated with time of detection. If HCC is caught early, survival rates can be as high as 50%. Regrettably, most cases of HCC are caught late where survival rates can be as low as 2-7%. Thus, there has been great interest in discovering serum biomarkers that could be used to identify those with HCC. To this end, many groups have examined the N-linked glycans to identify changes that occur with HCC. As the liver secretes the vast majority of proteins into the serum, this has often been a starting point for study. In serum, alterations in core fucosylation, outer-arm fucosylation, increased sialylation, and glycan branching have been observed in patients with HCC. Similar findings have been found directly in HCC tissue suggesting that these glycan changes may play a role in tumor formation and development.

Indexed as

AnimalsGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHumansLiver NeoplasmsNeoplasm ProteinsGlycoproteinsNeoplasm ProteinsFucosylationGlycomicsGlycoproteomicsGlycosylationHepatitis B virusHepatitis C virusHepatocellular carcinomaLiver cancerNash

Identifiers

PMID25727150
PMCPMC4634841
OpenAlexW194638166

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