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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2016

Role of EMT in Metastasis and Therapy Resistance.

Bethany N Smith, Neil A Bhowmick

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 283 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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283citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

283 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

2 authors.

Bethany N SmithDepartment of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8750 Beverly Blvd., Atrium 103, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA. bethany.smith@cshs.org.
Neil A BhowmickDepartment of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8750 Beverly Blvd., Atrium 103, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA. bhowmickn@cshs.org.

Funding

Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis: Biology and TargetingP01CA098912 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ZAYZAFOON, MAJD · 2003 to 2019
$24.0M
Training Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and MetabolismT32DK007770 · NIDDK · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI MELMED, SHLOMO · 1999 to 2022
$3.4M
TGFB Signals in Prostate Stromal-Epithelial InteractionsR01CA108646 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BHOWMICK, NEIL A. · 2004 to 2016
$2.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA098912NCI NIH HHS R01 CA108646NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a complex molecular program that regulates changes in cell morphology and function during embryogenesis and tissue development. EMT also contributes to tumor progression and metastasis. Cells undergoing EMT expand out of and degrade the surrounding microenvironment to subsequently migrate from the primary site. The mesenchymal phenotype observed in fibroblasts is specifically important based on the expression of smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), fibroblast-specific protein-1 (FSP1), and collagen to enhance EMT. Although EMT is not completely dependent on EMT regulators such as Snail, Twist, and Zeb-1/-2, analysis of upstream signaling (i.e., TGF-β, EGF, Wnt) is necessary to understand tumor EMT more comprehensively. Tumor epithelial-fibroblast interactions that regulate tumor progression have been identified during prostate cancer. The cellular crosstalk is significant because these events influence therapy response and patient outcome. This review addresses how canonical EMT signals originating from prostate cancer fibroblasts contribute to tumor metastasis and recurrence after therapy.

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EMTmicroenvironmentprostate cancerstroma

Identifiers

PMID26828526
PMCPMC4773773

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