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ArticleCancers2019

Tumour-Derived Laminin α5 (LAMA5) Promotes Colorectal Liver Metastasis Growth, Branching Angiogenesis and Notch Pathway Inhibition.

Alex Gordon-Weeks, Su Yin Lim, Arseniy Yuzhalin, Serena Lucotti, Jenny Adriana Francisca Vermeer, Keaton Jones, Jianzhou Chen, Ruth J Muschel

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Article in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-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

56 citing papers in PubMed, 81 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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alex Gordon-WeeksNuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX39DU, UK. alex.gordonweeks@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2997-4194
Su Yin LimFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. esther.lim@mq.edu.au.
Arseniy YuzhalinCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. yuzhalin@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7454-6653
Serena LucottiCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. serena.lucotti@gmail.com.
Jenny Adriana Francisca VermeerCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. jenny.vermeer@oncology.ox.ac.uk.
Keaton JonesCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. keatonjones@doctors.org.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-4765-2167
Jianzhou ChenCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. jianzhou.chen@oncology.ox.ac.uk.
Ruth J MuschelCRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37LE, UK. ruth.muschel@oncology.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GBJohn Radcliffe Hospital · GBMacquarie University · AU

Funding

Academy of Medical Sciences n/aCancer Research UK 20407Cancer Research UK BBRXID
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatic metastatic growth is dependent upon stromal factors including the matrisomal proteins that make up the extracellular matrix (ECM). Laminins are ECM glycoproteins with several functions relevant to tumour progression including angiogenesis. We investigated whether metastatic colon cancer cells produce the laminins required for vascular basement membrane assembly as a mechanism for the promotion of angiogenesis and liver metastasis growth. qPCR was performed using human-specific primers to laminin chains on RNA from orthotopic human colorectal liver metastases. Laminin α5 (LAMA5) expression was inhibited in colon cancer cells using shRNA. Notch pathway gene expression was determined in endothelia from hepatic metastases. Orthotopic hepatic metastases expressed human laminin chains α5, β1 and γ1 (laminin 511), all of which are required for vascular basement membrane assembly. The expression of Laminin 511 was associated with reduced survival in several independent colorectal cancer cohorts and angiogenesis signatures or vessel density significantly correlated with LAMA5 expression. Colorectal cancer cells in culture made little LAMA5, but its levels were increased by culture in a medium conditioned by tumour-derived CD11b

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angiogenesislamininliver metastasismatrisomemicroenvironmentNotch

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PMID31064120
PMCPMC6562694
OpenAlexW2942863733

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