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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Neuropilins Controlling Cancer Therapy Responsiveness.

Virginia Napolitano, Luca Tamagnone

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Neuropilin-1: A Multifaceted Target for Cancer Therapy.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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  13. SEMAPHORINS and their receptors: focus on the crosstalk between melanoma and hypoxia.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2021
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  14. Are All Patients with Cancer at Heightened Risk for Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)?Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Virginia NapolitanoCancer Cell Biology Laboratory, Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO, IRCCS, 10060 Candiolo, Italy. virginia.napolitano@ircc.it.
Luca TamagnoneIstituto di Istologia ed Embriologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 10168 Rome, Italy. luca.tamagnone@unicatt.it.ORCID 0000-0002-2884-7946
Candiolo Cancer Institute · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro AIRC-IG # 2017-19923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuropilins (NRPs) are cell surface glycoproteins, acting as co-receptors for secreted Semaphorins (SEMAs) and for members of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family; they have been initially implicated in axon guidance and angiogenesis regulation, and more recently in cancer progression. In addition, NRPs have been shown to control many other fundamental signaling pathways, especially mediated by tyrosine kinase receptors (RTKs) of growth factors, such as HGF (hepatocyte growth factor), PDGF (platelet derived growth factor) and EGF (epidermal growth factor). This enables NRPs to control a range of pivotal mechanisms in the cancer context, from tumor cell proliferation and metastatic dissemination, to tumor angiogenesis and immune escape. Moreover, cancer treatment failures due to resistance to innovative oncogene-targeted drugs is typically associated with the activity of alternative RTK-dependent pathways; and neuropilins' capacity to control oncogenic signaling cascades supports the hypothesis that they could elicit such mechanisms in cancer cells, in order to escape cytotoxic stress and therapeutic attacks. Intriguingly, several studies have recently assayed the impact of NRPs inhibition in combination with diverse anti-cancer drugs. In this minireview, we will discuss the state-of-art about the relevance of NRPs as potential predictive biomarkers of drug response, and the rationale to target these proteins in combination with other anticancer therapies.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsNeuropilinsTumor MicroenvironmentNeuropilinscancerchemotherapyimmunotherapyneuropilinradiotherapyresistancetarget therapy

Identifiers

PMID31027288
PMCPMC6515012
OpenAlexW2941832417

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