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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2020

The Engagement Between MDSCs and Metastases: Partners in Crime.

Rosalinda Trovato, Stefania Canè, Varvara Petrova, Silvia Sartoris, Stefano Ugel, Francesco De Sanctis

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Factors Determining Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rosalinda TrovatoSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Stefania CanèSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Varvara PetrovaSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Silvia SartorisSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Stefano UgelSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Francesco De SanctisSection of Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
University of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor metastases represent the major cause of cancer-related mortality, confirming the urgent need to identify key molecular pathways and cell-associated networks during the early phases of the metastatic process to develop new strategies to either prevent or control distal cancer spread. Several data revealed the ability of cancer cells to establish a favorable microenvironment, before their arrival in distant organs, by manipulating the cell composition and function of the new host tissue where cancer cells can survive and outgrow. This predetermined environment is termed "pre-metastatic niche" (pMN). pMN development requires that tumor-derived soluble factors, like cytokines, growth-factors and extracellular vesicles, genetically and epigenetically re-program not only resident cells (i.e., fibroblasts) but also non-resident cells such as bone marrow-derived cells. Indeed, by promoting an "emergency" myelopoiesis, cancer cells switch the steady state production of blood cells toward the generation of pro-tumor circulating myeloid cells defined as myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) able to sustain tumor growth and dissemination. MDSCs are a heterogeneous subset of myeloid cells with immunosuppressive properties that sustain metastatic process. In this review, we discuss current understandings of how MDSCs shape and promote metastatic dissemination acting in each fundamental steps of cancer progression from primary tumor to metastatic disease.

Indexed as

immunosuppressionMDSCs (myeloid-derived suppressor cells)metastasesmetastatic processpre-metastatic niche

Identifiers

PMID32133298
PMCPMC7040035
OpenAlexW3006144584

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