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ReviewMini reviews in medicinal chemistry2018

Nutlin-3, A p53-Mdm2 Antagonist for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Treatment.

Voon Yee-Lin, Wong Pooi-Fong, Alan Khoo Soo-Beng

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Review in Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

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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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Voon Yee-LinDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia.
Wong Pooi-FongDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia.
Alan Khoo Soo-BengMolecular Pathology Unit, Cancer Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, 50588 Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia.
University of Malaya · MYInstitute for Medical Research · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a form of head and neck cancer of multifactorial etiologies that is highly prevalent among men in the population of Southern China and Southeast Asia. NPC has claimed many thousands of lives worldwide; but the low awareness of NPC remains a hindrance in early diagnosis and prevention of the disease. NPC is highly responsive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but radiocurable NPC is still dependent on concurrent treatment of megavoltage radiotherapy with chemotherapy. Despite a significant reduction in loco-regional and distant metastases, radiotherapy alone has failed to provide a significant improvement in the overall survival rate of NPC, compared to chemotherapy. In addition, chemo-resistance persists as the major challenge in the management of metastatic NPC although the survival rate of advanced metastatic NPC has significantly improved with the administration of chemotherapy adjunctive to radiotherapy. In this regard, targeted molecular therapy could be explored for the discovery of alternative NPC therapies. Nutlin-3, a small molecule inhibitor that specifically targets p53-Mdm2 interaction offers new therapeutic opportunities by enhancing cancer cell growth arrest and apoptosis through the restoration of the p53-mediated tumor suppression pathway while producing minimal cytotoxicity and side effects. This review discusses the potential use of Nutlin-3 as a p53-activating drug and the future directions of its clinical research for NPC treatment.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCarcinomaHumansImidazolesNasopharyngeal CarcinomaNasopharyngeal NeoplasmsPiperazinesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2Tumor Suppressor Protein p53Antineoplastic AgentsImidazolesMDM2 protein, humannutlin 3PiperazinesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2Tumor Suppressor Protein p53ApoptosiscarcinomacisplatinEpstein-Barr virus (EBV)small molecule inhibitortargeted molecular therapy

Identifiers

PMID28714398
PMCPMC5769085
OpenAlexW2738630992

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