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ReviewCancers2017

Integrins as Therapeutic Targets: Successes and Cancers.

Sabine Raab-Westphal, John F Marshall, Simon L Goodman

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 138 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
138citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

138 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 238 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Defining the role of integrins in melanoblast migrationMolecular biology of the cell · 2025
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78 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sabine Raab-WestphalTranslational In Vivo Pharmacology, Translational Innovation Platform Oncology, Merck KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. sabine.raab@merckgroup.com.
John F MarshallBarts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK. j.f.Marshall@qmul.ac.uk.
Simon L GoodmanTranslational and Biomarkers Research, Translational Innovation Platform Oncology, Merck KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. simgoo@gmx.net.
Merck (Germany) · DEQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 16880Cancer Research UK 17764Cancer Research UK 21624Medical Research Council G0800825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrins are transmembrane receptors that are central to the biology of many human pathologies. Classically mediating cell-extracellular matrix and cell-cell interaction, and with an emerging role as local activators of TGFβ, they influence cancer, fibrosis, thrombosis and inflammation. Their ligand binding and some regulatory sites are extracellular and sensitive to pharmacological intervention, as proven by the clinical success of seven drugs targeting them. The six drugs on the market in 2016 generated revenues of some US$3.5 billion, mainly from inhibitors of α4-series integrins. In this review we examine the current developments in integrin therapeutics, especially in cancer, and comment on the health economic implications of these developments.

Indexed as

clinical trialefficacyhealth care economicsintegrintherapy

Identifiers

PMID28832494
PMCPMC5615325
OpenAlexW2745440458

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