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ReviewBritish journal of cancer2016

Therapeutic interactions of autophagy with radiation and temozolomide in glioblastoma: evidence and issues to resolve.

Michael I Koukourakis, Achilleas G Mitrakas, Alexandra Giatromanolaki

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In one paragraph

Review in British journal of cancer, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Hirudin inhibits glioma growth through mTOR-regulated autophagy.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2023
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  6. Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2023
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  10. Repurposing autophagy regulators in brain tumors.International journal of cancer · 2022
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  11. Regulation of autophagy as a therapeutic option in glioblastoma.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2021
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  12. Influence of CeInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  16. Frontiers in immunology · 2021
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  17. Tumor microenvironment, immune response and post-radiotherapy tumor clearance.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael I KoukourakisDepartment of Radiotherapy/Oncology, Democritus University of Thrace, PO Box 12, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.
Achilleas G MitrakasDepartment of Radiotherapy/Oncology, Democritus University of Thrace, PO Box 12, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.
Alexandra GiatromanolakiDepartment of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.
Democritus University of Thrace · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma is a unique model of non-metastasising disease that kills the vast majority of patients through local growth, despite surgery and local irradiation. Glioblastoma cells are resistant to apoptotic stimuli, and their death occurs through autophagy. This review aims to critically present our knowledge regarding the autophagic response of glioblastoma cells to radiation and temozolomide (TMZ) and to delineate eventual research directions to follow, in the quest of improving the curability of this incurable, as yet, disease. Radiation and TMZ interfere with the autophagic machinery, but whether cell response is driven to autophagy flux acceleration or blockage is disputable and may depend on both cell individuality and radiotherapy fractionation or TMZ schedules. Potent agents that block autophagy at an early phase of initiation or at a late phase of autolysosomal fusion are available aside to agents that induce functional autophagy, or even demethylating agents that may unblock the function of autophagy-initiating genes in a subset of tumours. All these create a maze, which if properly investigated can open new insights for the application of novel radio- and chemosensitising policies, exploiting the autophagic pathways that glioblastomas use to escape death.

Indexed as

AutophagyRadiotherapyAntineoplastic Agents, AlkylatingApoptosisBrain NeoplasmsDacarbazineGlioblastomaHumansRadiation-Sensitizing AgentsTemozolomideAntineoplastic Agents, AlkylatingDacarbazineRadiation-Sensitizing AgentsTemozolomide

Identifiers

PMID26889975
PMCPMC4782209
OpenAlexW2296056927

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