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ArticleBiomedicines2016

Ahmed M Al-Shammari, Marwa I Salman, Yahya D Saihood, Nahi Y Yaseen, Khansaa Raed, Hiba Kareem Shaker, Aesar Ahmed, Aseel Khalid, Ahlam Duiach

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Article in Biomedicines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ahmed M Al-ShammariExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. ahmed.alshammari@iccmgr.org.
Marwa I SalmanExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. marwa_i_salman@yahoo.ca.
Yahya D SaihoodExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. yahya.saihood@iccmgr.org.
Nahi Y YaseenExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. nahiyaseen@iccmgr.org.
Khansaa RaedExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. Khansaa.Raed@iccmgr.org.
Hiba Kareem ShakerExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. Hiba.Kareem@iccmgr.org.
Aesar AhmedExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. aesar.ahmed@iccmgr.org.
Aseel KhalidExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. Aseel.Khalid@iccmgr.org.
Ahlam DuiachExperimental Therapy Department, Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research, Baghdad 1001, Iraq. Ahlam.Duiach@iccmgr.org.
Baghdad Medical City · IQ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChemotherapy is one of the antitumor therapies used worldwide in spite of its serious side effects and unsatisfactory results. Many attempts have been made to increase its activity and reduce its toxicity. 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is still a widely-used chemotherapeutic agent, especially in combination with other chemotherapies. Combination therapy seems to be the best option for targeting tumor cells by different mechanisms. Virotherapy is a promising agent for fighting cancer because of its safety and selectivity. Newcastle disease virus is safe, and it selectively targets tumor cells. We previously demonstrated that Newcastle disease virus (NDV) could be used to augment other chemotherapeutic agents and reduce their toxicity by halving the administered dose and replacing the eliminated chemotherapeutic agents with the Newcastle disease virus; the same antitumor activity was maintained.

methodsIn the current work, we tested this hypothesis on different tumor cell lines. We used the non-virulent LaSota strain of NDV in combination with 5-FU, and we measured the cytotoxicity effect. We evaluated this combination using Chou-Talalay analysis.

resultsNDV was synergistic with 5-FU at low doses when used as a combination therapy on different cancer cells, and there were very mild effects on non-cancer cells.

conclusionThe combination of a virulent, non-pathogenic NDV-LaSota strain with a standard chemotherapeutic agent, 5-FU, has a synergistic effect on different tumor cells

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5-FU (5-fluorouracil)NDV (Newcastle disease virus)virotherapy

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PMCPMC5344244
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