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ReviewCancers2020

Predicting and Quantifying Antagonistic Effects of Natural Compounds Given with Chemotherapeutic Agents: Applications for High-Throughput Screening.

G Lavender Hackman, Meghan Collins, Xiyuan Lu, Alessia Lodi, John DiGiovanni, Stefano Tiziani

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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 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-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

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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Nutrients Lowering Obesity-Linked Chemokines Blamable for Metastasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. Synergistic effects of combined cisplatin andJournal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2023
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  12. Is Curcumin the Answer to Future Chemotherapy Cocktail?Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

G Lavender HackmanDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7439-5138
Meghan CollinsDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6201-9298
Xiyuan LuDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Alessia LodiDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
John DiGiovanniDepartment of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78723, USA.
Stefano TizianiDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7230-0307
The University of Texas at Austin · USLivestrong Foundation · US

Funding

Identification of Natural Compound Combinations for Prevention of Prostate CancerR01CA228404 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI DIGIOVANNI, JOHN, TIZIANI, STEFANO · 2019 to 2023
$2.5M
National Science Foundation DGE-1610403NCI NIH HHS R01 CA228404NIH HHS 5R01CA228404University of Texas System ST:STAR Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural products have been used for centuries to treat various human ailments. In recent decades, multi-drug combinations that utilize natural products to synergistically enhance the therapeutic effects of cancer drugs have been identified and have shown success in improving treatment outcomes. While drug synergy research is a burgeoning field, there are disagreements on the definitions and mathematical parameters that prevent the standardization and proper usage of the terms synergy, antagonism, and additivity. This contributes to the relatively small amount of data on the antagonistic effects of natural products on cancer drugs that can diminish their therapeutic efficacy and prevent cancer regression. The ability of natural products to potentially degrade or reverse the molecular activity of cancer therapeutics represents an important but highly under-emphasized area of research that is often overlooked in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. This review aims to evaluate the body of work surrounding the antagonistic interactions between natural products and cancer therapeutics and highlight applications for high-throughput screening (HTS) and deep learning techniques for the identification of natural products that antagonize cancer drug efficacy.

Indexed as

antagonismcancerchemotherapydrug screeningnatural productssynergy

Identifiers

PMID33322034
PMCPMC7763027
OpenAlexW3112320269

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