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ReviewCancer metastasis reviews2020

KISS1 in metastatic cancer research and treatment: potential and paradoxes.

Thuc Ly, Sitaram Harihar, Danny R Welch

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Review in Cancer metastasis reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Reactivation of the silencedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. KISS1 and Kisspeptins Detection in Cell Lines.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Thuc LyDepartment of Cancer Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. - MS1071, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3971-5404
Sitaram HariharDepartment of Genetic Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4953-7282
Danny R WelchDepartment of Cancer Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. - MS1071, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA. DWelch@KUMC.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1951-4947
SRM Institute of Science and Technology · INThe University of Kansas Cancer Center · USUniversity Medical Center · US

Funding

Mentoring CoreP20GM103418 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Douglas E Wright · 2012 to 2026
$63.0M
Transgenic & Gene-Targeting Shared ResourceP30CA168524 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI ROY A. JENSEN · 2012 to 2026
$40.1M
MOLECULAR REGULATION OF BREAST CANCER METASTASISR01CA087728 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WELCH, DANNY R. · 2000 to 2008
$2.7M
KISS1: Defining Mechanisms for Antimetastatic TherapyR01CA134981 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELCH, DANNY R. · 2009 to 2014
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA168524NCI NIH HHS R01 CA087728NCI NIH HHS R01 CA134981NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The significance of KISS1 goes beyond its original discovery as a metastasis suppressor. Its function as a neuropeptide involved in diverse physiologic processes is more well studied. Enthusiasm regarding KISS1 has cumulated in clinical trials in multiple fields related to reproduction and metabolism. But its cancer therapeutic space is unsettled. This review focuses on collating data from cancer and non-cancer fields in order to understand shared and disparate signaling that might inform clinical development in the cancer therapeutic and biomarker space. Research has focused on amino acid residues 68-121 (kisspeptin 54), binding to the KISS1 receptor and cellular responses. Evidence and counterevidence regarding this canonical pathway require closer look at the covariates so that the incredible potential of KISS1 can be realized.

Indexed as

AnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansKisspeptinsNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasmsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, Kisspeptin-1KisspeptinsReceptors, Kisspeptin-1DormancyG protein-coupled receptorKISS1KISS1RMetastasisMetastasis suppressor

Identifiers

PMID32152912
PMCPMC7483209
OpenAlexW3009217014

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