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ArticleTheranostics2016

Optical Imaging of Mesenchymal Epithelial Transition Factor (MET) for Enhanced Detection and Characterization of Primary and Metastatic Hepatic Tumors.

Shadi A Esfahani, Pedram Heidari, Sun A Kim, Shuji Ogino, Umar Mahmood

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Article in Theranostics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Targeting c-MET for Endoscopic Detection of Dysplastic Lesions within Barrett's Esophagus Using EMI-137 Fluorescence Imaging.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  8. PET Imaging of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Cancer.Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2018
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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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Shadi A EsfahaniAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Pedram HeidariAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Sun A KimDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.
Shuji OginoDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School;; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School;; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Umar MahmoodAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Tissue and Pathology ResourcesP50CA127003 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI BASS, ADAM JOEL · 2007 to 2023
$33.2M
MOUSE MODELS FOR HUMAN CANCERU01CA084301 · NCI · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI KUCHERLAPATI, RAJU S. · 1999 to 2013
$12.8M
Accelerating Transdisciplinary Epidemiology of Colorectal CancerR35CA197735 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI OGINO, SHUJI · 2015 to 2021
$6.0M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA127003NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197735NCI NIH HHS U01 CA084301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarcinoma, HepatocellularCell Line, TumorColorectal NeoplasmsDisease Models, AnimalHeterograftsHumansLiver NeoplasmsMiceOptical ImagingProto-Oncogene Proteins c-metMET protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-metIntra-operative interventionsLiver cancerMETmolecularly-targeted therapy.Optical ImagingTumor detection

Identifiers

PMID27698938
PMCPMC5039678
OpenAlexW2520511068

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Registered trials

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