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ReviewThe FEBS journal2020

Double agents of cell death: novel emerging functions of apoptotic regulators.

Heather M Lamb

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Review in The FEBS journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Programmed Cell Death in Rheumatoid Arthritis.Journal of inflammation research · 2025
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heather M LambW. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8060-0633
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF BCL XL BY CASPASESR01NS037402 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HARDWICK, J. MARIE · 1999 to 2014
$4.5M
Non-canonical functions of the apoptosis inhibitor Bcl-xLF32GM095253 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LAMB, HEATHER M · 2010 to 2011
$104k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM095253NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS037402NINDS NIH HHS RO1 NS037402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apoptosis is a highly regulated form of cell death that is required for many homeostatic and pathological processes. Recently, alternative cell death pathways have emerged whose regulation is dependent on proteins with canonical functions in apoptosis. Dysregulation of apoptotic signaling frequently underlies the pathogenesis of many cancers, reinforcing the need to develop therapies that initiate alternative cell death processes. This review outlines the convergence points between apoptosis and other death pathways with the purpose of identifying novel strategies for the treatment of apoptosis-refractory cancers. Apoptosis proteins can play key roles in the initiation, regulation, and execution of nonapoptotic death processes that include necroptosis, autophagy, pyroptosis, mPTP-mediated necrosis, and ferroptosis. Notably, recent evidence illustrates that dying cells can exhibit biochemical and molecular characteristics of more than one different type of regulated cell death. Thus, this review highlights the amazing complexity and interconnectivity of cell death processes and also raises the idea that a top-to-bottom approach to describing cell death mechanisms may be inadequate for fully understanding the means by which cells die.

Indexed as

ApoptosisDrug Resistance, NeoplasmAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAutophagyHumansNeoplasmsSignal TransductionAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsapoptosisautophagyBCL-2cancercaspaseferroptosismPTPnecroptosispyroptosis

Identifiers

PMID32239637
PMCPMC8796856
OpenAlexW3014196943

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Registered trials

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