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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

Amino Acid Starvation Sensitizes Resistant Breast Cancer to Doxorubicin-Induced Cell Death.

Mark Thomas, Tanja Davis, Theo Nell, Balindiwe Sishi, Anna-Mart Engelbrecht

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark ThomasDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Tanja DavisDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Theo NellDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Balindiwe SishiDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Anna-Mart EngelbrechtDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many clinical trials are beginning to assess the effectiveness of compounds known to regulate autophagy in patients receiving anti-cancer chemotherapy. However, autophagy inhibition, through exogenous inhibitors, or activation, through starvation, has revealed conflicting roles in cancer management and chemotherapeutic outcome. This study aimed to assess the effect of amino acid starvation on doxorubicin-treated breast cancer cells by assessing the roles of autophagy and apoptosis. An

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amino acidsbreast cancerdoxorubicinnutrient starvationsensitization

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PMID33178685
PMCPMC7593593
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