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ArticleCell metabolism2017

Lipid Metabolism Fuels Cancer's Spread.

Zhuo Li, Yibin Kang

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Article in Cell metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Statins as Repurposed Drugs in Gynecological Cancer: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  10. Lipids: Driving Forces in the Underlying Biology of Carcinogenesis.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhuo LiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Yibin KangDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: ykang@princeton.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to prospectively identify metastasis-initiating cells is essential for developing new anti-metastasis therapeutics. In a recent issue of Nature, Pascual et al. (2017) demonstrate that the fatty acid receptor CD36 marks a subpopulation of cancer cells with unique metastasis-initiating potential, highlighting a key role of lipid metabolism in metastatic colonization.

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Lipid MetabolismNeoplasmsCarrier ProteinsFatty AcidsHumansCarrier ProteinsFatty Acids

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