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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2020

Targeting Glutaminolysis: New Perspectives to Understand Cancer Development and Novel Strategies for Potential Target Therapies.

Zhefang Wang, Fanyu Liu, Ningbo Fan, Chenghui Zhou, Dai Li, Thomas Macvicar, Qiongzhu Dong, Christiane J Bruns, Yue Zhao

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
133citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

133 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 177 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

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhefang WangDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Fanyu LiuDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Ningbo FanDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Chenghui ZhouDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Dai LiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Thomas MacvicarMax-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Qiongzhu DongDepartment of General Surgery, Huashan Hospital & Cancer Metastasis Institute & Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Christiane J BrunsDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Yue ZhaoDepartment of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
University Hospital Cologne · DEFudan University · CNMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing · DESecond Military Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolism rewiring is an important hallmark of cancers. Being one of the most abundant free amino acids in the human blood, glutamine supports bioenergetics and biosynthesis, tumor growth, and the production of antioxidants through glutaminolysis in cancers. In glutamine dependent cancer cells, more than half of the tricarboxylic/critic acid (TCA) metabolites are derived from glutamine. Glutaminolysis controls the process of converting glutamine into TCA cycle metabolites through the regulation of multiple enzymes, among which the glutaminase shows the importance as the very first step in this process. Targeting glutaminolysis

Indexed as

cancer metabolismcombination therapyglutaminase inhibitorglutaminolysismetastasis

Identifiers

PMID33194749
PMCPMC7649373
OpenAlexW3095609398

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