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ReviewEXCLI journal2015

Molecular mechanisms of etoposide.

Alessandra Montecucco, Francesca Zanetta, Giuseppe Biamonti

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Review in EXCLI journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 194 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
194citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-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

194 citing papers in PubMed, 293 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alessandra MontecuccoIstituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, via Abbiategrasso 207, Pavia.
Francesca ZanettaIstituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, via Abbiategrasso 207, Pavia ; Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologia, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, Pavia, Italy.
Giuseppe BiamontiIstituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, via Abbiategrasso 207, Pavia.
Istituto di Genetica Molecolare · ITUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Etoposide derives from podophyllotoxin, a toxin found in the American Mayapple. It was first synthesized in 1966 and approved for cancer therapy in 1983 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Hande, 1998[25]). Starting from 1980s several studies demonstrated that etoposide targets DNA topoisomerase II activities thus leading to the production of DNA breaks and eliciting a response that affects several aspects of cell metabolisms. In this review we will focus on molecular mechanisms that account for the biological effect of etoposide.

Identifiers

PMID26600742
PMCPMC4652635
OpenAlexW2345588051

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