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ReviewCancer chemotherapy and pharmacology2015

Antimitotic drugs in the treatment of cancer.

Rustelle Janse van Vuuren, Michelle H Visagie, Anne E Theron, Annie M Joubert

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Review in Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
90citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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30 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rustelle Janse van VuurenDepartment of Physiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 323, Arcadia, 0007, South Africa.
Michelle H VisagieDepartment of Physiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 323, Arcadia, 0007, South Africa. michelle.visagie@up.ac.za.
Anne E TheronDepartment of Physiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 323, Arcadia, 0007, South Africa.
Annie M JoubertDepartment of Physiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 323, Arcadia, 0007, South Africa.
University of Pretoria · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a complex disease since it is adaptive in such a way that it can promote proliferation and invasion by means of an overactive cell cycle and in turn cellular division which is targeted by antimitotic drugs that are highly validated chemotherapy agents. However, antimitotic drug cytotoxicity to non-tumorigenic cells and multiple cancer resistance developed in response to drugs such as taxanes and vinca alkaloids are obstacles faced in both the clinical and basic research field to date. In this review, the classes of antimitotic compounds, their mechanisms of action and cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy and other limitations of current antimitotic compounds are highlighted, as well as the potential of novel 17-β estradiol analogs as cancer treatment.

Indexed as

Antimitotic AgentsApoptosisBiomarkers, TumorCell CycleCell ProliferationDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansNeoplasmsTaxoidsVinca AlkaloidsAntimitotic AgentsBiomarkers, TumorTaxoidsVinca Alkaloids2-MethoxyestradiolEpothilonesEstrogensTaxanesVinca alkaloids

Identifiers

PMID26563258
PMCPMC4648954
OpenAlexW2119657212

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