ArticlePeerJ2019
Monensin may inhibit melanoma by regulating the selection between differentiation and stemness of melanoma stem cells.
Article in PeerJ, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- From veterinary antibiotic to cancer therapy: revisiting anticancer potential of Monensin.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Therapeutic Potential of Ion Carrier Antibiotics in Ovarian Cancer: Mechanisms and Prospects.Cancer management and research · 2026Review
- Article
- Lithium Chloride rescues Monensin-potentiated Wnt signaling inhibition in inflammatory bone loss in rats.Brazilian dental journal · 2025Article
- Combination of monensin and erlotinib synergistically inhibited the growth and cancer stem cell properties of triple-negative breast cancer by simultaneously inhibiting EGFR and PI3K signaling pathways.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Article
- Inhibition of Wnt/β-catenin signaling by monensin in cervical cancer.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2024Article
- Anti-glioblastoma activity of monensin and its analogs in an organoid model of cancer.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022Article
- Bioactive Microbial Metabolites in Cancer Therapeutics: Mining, Repurposing, and Their Molecular Targets.Current microbiology · 2022Review
- Monensin suppresses cell proliferation and invasion in ovarian cancer by enhancing MEK1 SUMOylation.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Melanoma is the most lethal cutaneous malignancy that threatens human lives. Poor sensitivity to chemotherapy drugs and the high rate of resistance are the bottlenecks of melanoma treatment. Thus, new chemotherapy drugs are needed. Drug repurposing is a safe, economical and timesaving way to explore new chemotherapy for diseases. Here, we investigated the possibility of repurposing the antibiotic monensin as an anti-melanoma agent. Using three human melanoma cells and two nomal human cell lines as cell models, we found that monensin is obviously toxic to human melanoma cells while safe to nomal human cells. It effectively inhibited cell proliferation and viability, while promoted apoptosis and differentiation of human melanoma cells
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.