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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2018

Usage of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Small Molecule Inhibitors: More Than Just Inhibition!

Steffen K Meurer, Ralf Weiskirchen

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Steffen K MeurerInstitute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene, and Clinical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Ralf WeiskirchenInstitute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene, and Clinical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have identified a phenomenon occurring in the usage of proposed "specific" Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitors. We found that especially inhibitors of p38 potentiate the activation of other MAPKs in various cell types. This finding will have tremendous impact on the interpretation of all former studies using MAPK inhibitors.

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inhibitorsmitogen-activated protein kinasesPD98059PDGF-BBSB203580signal transductionSP600125UO126

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PMID29483873
PMCPMC5816342

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