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ReviewChonnam medical journal2018

Melanoma Cell Death Mechanisms.

Lindsey Broussard, Amanda Howland, Sunhyo Ryu, Kyungsup Song, David Norris, Cheryl A Armstrong, Peter I Song

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Review in Chonnam medical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 38 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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lindsey BroussardDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Amanda HowlandDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Sunhyo RyuDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Kyungsup SongMarian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
David NorrisDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Cheryl A ArmstrongDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Peter I SongDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
University of Colorado Denver · USMarian University - Indiana · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over recent years, several new molecular and immunogenic therapeutic approaches to melanoma treatment have been approved and implemented in clinical practice. Mechanisms of resistance to these new therapies have become a major problem. Mutation-specific pharmacotherapy can result in simultaneous emergence of resistant clones at many separate body sites despite an initially positive therapeutic response. Additionally, treatments aimed at inducing apoptosis are subject to resistance due to escape through other known mechanisms of regulated cell death (RCD). In this review, we discuss the complexity in pharmacological manipulation of melanoma with c-Kit, BRAF, MEK, and/or mTOR mutant cell lines. This study also addresses melanoma evasion of cell death through modalities of RCD such as apoptosis, autophagy, and necroptosis. This study also examines new combination therapies which have been approved to target both cell cycle dysregulation and cell death pathways. Lastly, we recognize the importance of immunomodulation though manipulation of the body's natural killing mechanisms with CTLA4, PD1, and CSF1 inhibition. As we begin to recognize tumor cell activation of alternate pathways, evasion of programmed cell death, and manipulation of the tumor microenvironment, it is increasingly important to grasp the complexity of personalized therapy in melanoma treatment.

Indexed as

ApoptosisAutophagyCTLA4 protein, humanMelanomaTOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

Identifiers

PMID30288368
PMCPMC6165917
OpenAlexW2893678561

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