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ReviewMarine drugs2017

Marine Sponge Natural Products with Anticancer Potential: An Updated Review.

Cinzia Calcabrini, Elena Catanzaro, Anupam Bishayee, Eleonora Turrini, Carmela Fimognari

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In one paragraph

Review in Marine drugs, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
78citing papers in PubMed
12.1field-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

78 citing papers in PubMed, 156 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Wildlife Diseases: Pathology and Diagnostic Investigation.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  4. Anticancer and Antimicrobial Activity ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  17. Two Novel Compounds Isolated from the Marine Fungal Symbiont ofJournal of experimental pharmacology · 2025
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18 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cinzia CalcabriniDepartment for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy. cinzia.calcabrini@unibo.it.
Elena CatanzaroDepartment for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy. elena.catanzaro2@unibo.it.
Anupam BishayeeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA. abishayee@ularkin.org.
Eleonora TurriniDepartment for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy. eleonora.turrini@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0003-4743-1126
Carmela FimognariDepartment for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy. abishayee@gmail.com.
University of Bologna · ITLarkin University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the huge investment into research and the significant effort and advances made in the search for new anticancer drugs in recent decades, cancer cure and treatment continue to be a formidable challenge. Many sources, including plants, animals, and minerals, have been explored in the oncological field because of the possibility of identifying novel molecular therapeutics. Marine sponges are a prolific source of secondary metabolites, a number of which showed intriguing tumor chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic properties. Recently, Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs derived from marine sponges have been shown to reduce metastatic breast cancer, malignant lymphoma, and Hodgkin's disease. The chemopreventive and potential anticancer activity of marine sponge-derived compounds could be explained by multiple cellular and molecular mechanisms, including DNA protection, cell-cycle modulation, apoptosis, and anti-inflammatory activities as well as their ability to chemosensitize cancer cells to traditional antiblastic chemotherapy. The present article aims to depict the multiple mechanisms involved in the chemopreventive and therapeutic effects of marine sponges and critically explore the limitations and challenges associated with the development of marine sponge-based anticancer strategy.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnticarcinogenic AgentsAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosisBiological ProductsDrug DesignHumansNeoplasmsPoriferaSecondary MetabolismAnticarcinogenic AgentsAntineoplastic AgentsBiological Productsapoptosiscancercancer chemopreventioncancer chemotherapycell cyclemarine sponges

Identifiers

PMID29027954
PMCPMC5666418
OpenAlexW2763435115

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Registered trials

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