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ReviewTrends in cell biology2015

Surviving apoptosis: life-death signaling in single cells.

Deborah A Flusberg, Peter K Sorger

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Review in Trends in cell biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
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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

71 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Programmed cell death of keratinocytes: an active driver in psoriasis.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  4. Hypoxic adaptation theory of cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  7. Advancements in programmed cell death research in antitumor therapy: a comprehensive overview.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025
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11 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.

Deborah A FlusbergLaboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Peter K SorgerLaboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: peter_sorger@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY COREP50GM107618 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI MALISZEWSKI, LAURA ELIZABETH · 2014 to 2018
$10.8M
Quantitative Analysis of Cell Death Pathways in CancerP01CA139980 · NCI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2010 to 2014
$9.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA139980NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM107618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue development and homeostasis are regulated by opposing pro-survival and pro-death signals. An interesting feature of the Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) family of ligands is that they simultaneously activate opposing signals within a single cell via the same ligand-receptor complex. The magnitude of pro-death events such as caspase activation and pro-survival events such as Nuclear Factor (NF)-κB activation vary not only from one cell type to the next but also among individual cells of the same type due to intrinsic and extrinsic noise. The molecules involved in these pro-survival and/or pro-death pathways, and the different phenotypes that result from their activities, have been recently reviewed. Here we focus on the impact of cell-to-cell variability in the strength of these opposing signals on shaping cell fate decisions.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisCell DeathCell SurvivalHumansReceptors, Death DomainSignal TransductionTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing LigandReceptors, Death DomainTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligandapoptosiscell fatedeath ligandlife–death decisionsurvivalvariability

Identifiers

PMID25920803
PMCPMC4570028

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