ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental pathology2018
Expression of Tim-3 in breast cancer tissue promotes tumor progression.
Article in International journal of clinical and experimental pathology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prognostic Values of TIM-3 Expression in Patients With Solid Tumors: A Meta-Analysis and Database Evaluation.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Pooled it
- The concurrent silencing of Tim-3 and STAT-3 promotes tumor regression both in vitro and in ovo.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Clinical Value of Serum sTim-3, CEA, CA15-3 for Postoperative Recurrence of Breast Cancer.Cancer management and research · 2025Article
- CD8Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Review
- Review
- Article
- Breast Cancer Tumor Microenvironment and Molecular Aberrations Hijack Tumoricidal Immunity.Cancers · 2022Review
- Therapeutic strategies for gastric cancer targeting immune cells: Future directions.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- The Emerging Role of T-Cell Immunoglobulin Mucin-3 in Breast Cancer: A Promising Target For Immunotherapy.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Review
- Tim-3 promotes cell aggressiveness and paclitaxel resistance through NF-κB/STAT3 signalling pathway in breast cancer cells.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
T-cell immunoglobulin mucin-3 (Tim-3) plays a pivotal role in immune regulation and tolerance induction as a negative regulatory molecule on innate versus adaptive immune cells, especially in antitumor immunity. However, the mechanism of Tim-3 expression on tumor cells and the mechanism that inhibits anti-tumor immunity are obscure. In this present study, we aimed to investigate the functions of Tim-3 in breast cancer and to explore its correlation to tumor prognosis. In a total of 42 clinical samples of invasive breast cancer, Tim-3 was semiquantitatively scored based on both distribution and intensity of immunohistochemistry staining and was found to correlate with clinicopathological parameters. Western blotting was used to detect the expression of Tim-3 in breast cancer cells. Furthermore, the effect of Tim-3 in breast cancer cells was evaluated after overexpression by ADV-Tim-3 and downregulation by Tim-3-siRNA. High immunoreactivity of Tim-3 was found to be significantly correlated with clinical stage, metastasis, KI67, and a lower 5-year survival rate. We supported this finding by confirming the presence of Tim-3 protein in the breast cell lines. Downregulation of Tim-3 significantly inhibited the proliferation, migration, and invasion of breast cancer cells while it promoted apoptosis. Overexpression of Tim-3 promoted the proliferation, migration, and invasion of breast cancer cells and inhibited apoptosis. Taken together, as a valuable marker of breast cancer prognosis, Tim-3 in breast cancer cells play an important role in the progression of breast cancer and may be an effective novel target in tumor prevention and treatment.
Indexed as
Identifiers
31938210PMC6958123W3001157800What 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.