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ReviewOncology letters2020

Calcitonin gene-related peptide: A promising bridge between cancer development and cancer-associated pain in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Yu Zhang, Chengzhong Lin, Xu Wang, Tong Ji

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Review in Oncology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yu ZhangDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P.R. China.
Chengzhong LinDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P.R. China.
Xu WangDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P.R. China.
Tong JiDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P.R. China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CNShanghai Ninth People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nerves have been widely demonstrated to exert major effects in tumor-associated microenvironments. Due to the characteristic innervation of the oral cavity and the fact that cancer-associated pain is a distinct feature of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), the sensory nerves may dominate in the OSCC-nerve microenvironment. As the most abundant neuropeptide in the trigeminal ganglion, the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) exerts a dual effect on cancer development and cancer-associated pain in various types of cancer. The present review explored the potential molecular mechanisms of the roles of CGRP in cancer development and cancer-associated pain, suggesting that CGRP may be a promising therapeutic target for OSCC.

Indexed as

calcitonin gene-related peptidecancer-associated painimmune evasioninternalizationmetabolic reprogrammingoral squamous cell carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID32994816
PMCPMC7509602
OpenAlexW3087745720

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