Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30116311›Full record

ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2018

Antitumor necrosis factor-α antibodies as a noveltherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Wei Li, Yong-Bin Jian

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wei LiInterventional Medical Center, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266555, P.R. China.
Yong-Bin JianDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong 261041, P.R. China.
Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University · CNWeifang People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for many cases of cancer-associated mortality. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is a key mediator of tumor-promoting inflammation. It has been demonstrated that anti-TNF-α treatments have preclinical benefits for multiple types of cancer, however their potential for treating HCC remains unclear. Through fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, the results of the current study indicated that TNF-α was strongly expressed in HCC tissues and the HCC cell lines HepG2 and Hep3B.

Indexed as

hepatocellular carcinomainflammationtarget therapytumor necrosis factor

Identifiers

PMID30116311
PMCPMC6090380
OpenAlexW2805347897

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