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ReviewCancers2020

Mechanosensitive Piezo Channels in Cancer: Focus on altered Calcium Signaling in Cancer Cells and in Tumor Progression.

Dario De Felice, Alessandro Alaimo

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
72citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Piezo channels in tumors.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2026
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  13. Exploring Ion Channel Magnetic Pharmacology: Are Magnetic Cues a Viable Alternative to Ion Channel Drugs?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  19. Piezo channels modulate human lung fibroblast function.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dario De FeliceDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, 38123 Povo (Tn), Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8121-8260
Alessandro AlaimoDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, 38123 Povo (Tn), Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5888-6268
University of Trento · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanotransduction, the translation of mechanical stimuli into biological signals, is a crucial mechanism involved in the function of fundamentally all cell types. In many solid tumors, the malignant transformation is often associated with drastic changes in cell mechanical features. Extracellular matrix stiffness, invasive growth, and cell mobility are just a few hallmarks present in cancer cells that, by inducing mechanical stimuli, create positive feedbacks promoting cancer development. Among the molecular players involved in these pathophysiological processes, the mechanosensitive Ca

Indexed as

calcium signalingcancer progressionmechanotransductionpiezo channels

Identifiers

PMID32635333
PMCPMC7407875
OpenAlexW3040485407

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Registered trials

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