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ReviewCancers2020

Exosomal MicroRNAs and Organotropism in Breast Cancer Metastasis.

Grace L Wong, Sara Abu Jalboush, Hui-Wen Lo

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Potential biological roles of exosomal non-coding RNAs in breast cancer.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  9. MicroRNA-mediated autophagy regulation in thyroid cancer drug resistance.Cancer drug resistance (Alhambra, Calif.) · 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Grace L WongDepartment of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5986-4952
Sara Abu JalboushDepartment of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.
Hui-Wen LoDepartment of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

NIH HHS 1R01CA228137-01A1U.S. Department of Defense W81XWH-17-1-0044U.S. Department of Defense W81XWH-19-1-0072U.S. Department of Defense W81XWH-19-1-0753U.S. Department of Defense W81XWH-20-1-0044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy for women in which one in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime. Despite advances made in treating primary breast cancer, there is still no effective treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Consequently, metastatic breast cancer is responsible for 90% of breast cancer-related deaths while only accounting for approximately one third of all breast cancer cases. To help develop effective treatments for metastatic breast cancer, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which breast cancer metastasizes, particularly, those underlying organotropism towards brain, bone, and lungs. In this review, we will primarily focus on the roles that circulating exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) play in organotropism of breast cancer metastasis. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that play critical roles in intercellular communication. MicroRNAs can be encapsulated in exosomes; cargo-loaded exosomes can be secreted by tumor cells into the tumor microenvironment to facilitate tumor-stroma interactions or released to circulation to prime distant organs for subsequent metastasis. Here, we will summarize our current knowledge on the biogenesis of exosomes and miRNAs, mechanisms of cargo sorting into exosomes, the exosomal miRNAs implicated in breast cancer metastasis, and therapeutic exosomal miRNAs.

Indexed as

breast cancerexosomesmetastasismicroRNAsorganotropism

Identifiers

PMID32646059
PMCPMC7408921
OpenAlexW3039186647

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