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ArticleCancers2019

Blocking Activin Receptor Ligands Is Not Sufficient to Rescue Cancer-Associated Gut Microbiota-A Role for Gut Microbial Flagellin in Colorectal Cancer and Cachexia?

Satu Pekkala, Anniina Keskitalo, Emilia Kettunen, Sanna Lensu, Noora Nykänen, Teijo Kuopio, Olli Ritvos, Jaakko Hentilä, Tuuli A Nissinen, Juha J Hulmi

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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 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Cancer cachexia: molecular basis and therapeutic advances.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  5. Involvement of the gut microbiota in cancer cachexia.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2024
    Review
  6. Cancer cachexia as a multiorgan failure: Reconstruction of the crime scene.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
    Review
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  9. Muscle NADMolecular metabolism · 2020
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  11. Microbes in Tumoral In Situ Tissues and in Tumorigenesis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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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

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Satu PekkalaFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
Anniina KeskitaloInstitute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-3342-4358
Emilia KettunenFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
Sanna LensuFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-8197-7590
Noora NykänenDepartment of Pathology, Central Finland Health Care District, Keskussairaalantie 19, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
Teijo KuopioDepartment of Pathology, Central Finland Health Care District, Keskussairaalantie 19, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
Olli RitvosDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
Jaakko HentiläFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-8211-8827
Tuuli A NissinenFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
Juha J HulmiFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland.
University of Jyväskylä · FICentral Finland Health Care District · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Turku · FI

Funding

Academy of Finland 275922Academy of Finland 308042Cancer Society of Finland JJH
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) and cachexia are associated with the gut microbiota and microbial surface molecules. We characterized the CRC-associated microbiota and investigated whether cachexia affects the microbiota composition. Further, we examined the possible relationship between the microbial surface molecule flagellin and CRC. CRC cells (C26) were inoculated into mice. Activin receptor (ACVR) ligands were blocked, either before tumor formation or before and after, to increase muscle mass and prevent muscle loss. The effects of flagellin on C26-cells were studied in vitro. The occurrence of similar phenomena were studied in murine and human tumors. Cancer modulated the gut microbiota without consistent effects of blocking the ACVR ligands. However, continued treatment for muscle loss modified the association between microbiota and weight loss. Several abundant microbial taxa in cancer were flagellated. Exposure of C26-cells to flagellin increased

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PMID31731747
PMCPMC6896205
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