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ReviewInternational journal of experimental pathology2018

Charting the unexplored extracellular matrix in cancer.

Elysse C Filipe, Jessica L Chitty, Thomas R Cox

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Review in International journal of experimental pathology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. HPMA copolymer-collagen hybridizing peptide conjugates targeted to breast tumor extracellular matrix.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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  16. Trends in extracellular matrix biology.Molecular biology reports · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Elysse C FilipeCancer Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jessica L ChittyCancer Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Thomas R CoxCancer Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research & The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9294-1745
Garvan Institute of Medical Research · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is present in all solid tissues and considered a master regulator of cell behaviour and phenotype. The importance of maintaining the correct biochemical and biophysical properties of the ECM, and the subsequent regulation of cell and tissue homeostasis, is illustrated by the simple fact that the ECM is highly dysregulated in many different types of disease, especially cancer. The loss of tissue ECM homeostasis and integrity is seen as one of the hallmarks of cancer and typically defines transitional events in progression and metastasis. The vast majority of cancer studies place an emphasis on exploring the behaviour and intrinsic signalling pathways of tumour cells. Their goal was to identify ways to target intracellular pathways regulating cancer. Cancer progression and metastasis are powerfully influenced by the ECM and thus present a vast, unexplored repository of anticancer targets that we are only just beginning to tap into. Deconstructing the complexity of the tumour ECM landscape and identifying the interactions between the many cell types, soluble factors and extracellular-matrix proteins have proved challenging. Here, we discuss some of the emerging tools and platforms being used to catalogue and chart the ECM in cancer.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell MovementExtracellular MatrixExtracellular Matrix ProteinsHumansNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsSignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentExtracellular Matrix Proteinscancerextracellular matriximagingmetastasisproteomicsremodelling

Identifiers

PMID29671911
PMCPMC6031881
OpenAlexW2800878807

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Registered trials

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