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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2019

Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Colon Cancer: A CRH System-Driven Molecular Crosstalk.

Stavroula Baritaki, Eelco de Bree, Ekaterini Chatzaki, Charalabos Pothoulakis

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Psychological distress as a risk factor for the efficacy of chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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  16. Effect of chronic stress on tumorigenesis and development.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022
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  18. Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Survival Differences and Potential Geographic Determinants Among Men and Women in Utah.American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting · 2022
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Stavroula BaritakiDivision of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, 71500 Crete, Greece. baritaks@uoc.gr.
Eelco de BreeDivision of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, 71500 Crete, Greece. debree@med.uoc.gr.
Ekaterini ChatzakiLaboratory of Pharmacology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece. achatzak@med.duth.gr.
Charalabos PothoulakisIBD Center, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 10833, USA. cpothoulakis@mednet.ucla.edu.
University of Crete · GRDemocritus University of Thrace · GRUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Role of Corticotropin Releasing Hormone in Intestinal InflammationR01DK101671 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI POTHOULAKIS, CHARALABOS · 2015 to 2017
$1.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK101671
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic stress is thought to be involved in the occurrence and progression of multiple diseases, via mechanisms that still remain largely unknown. Interestingly, key regulators of the stress response, such as members of the corticotropin-releasing-hormone (CRH) family of neuropeptides and receptors, are now known to be implicated in the regulation of chronic inflammation, one of the predisposing factors for oncogenesis and disease progression. However, an interrelationship between stress, inflammation, and malignancy, at least at the molecular level, still remains unclear. Here, we attempt to summarize the current knowledge that supports the inseparable link between chronic stress, inflammation, and colorectal cancer (CRC), by modulation of a cascade of molecular signaling pathways, which are under the regulation of CRH-family members expressed in the brain and periphery. The understanding of the molecular basis of the link among these processes may provide a step forward towards personalized medicine in terms of CRC diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic targeting.

Indexed as

colorectal cancer (CRC)corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH)inflammationstress

Identifiers

PMID31614860
PMCPMC6833069
OpenAlexW2979835635

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