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ReviewJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2021

Toll-like receptors (TLRs): An old family of immune receptors with a new face in cancer pathogenesis.

Yazdan Mokhtari, Atieh Pourbagheri-Sigaroodi, Parisa Zafari, Nader Bagheri, Seyed H Ghaffari, Davood Bashash

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Review in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
52citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 80 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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yazdan MokhtariDepartment of Hematology and Blood Banking, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Atieh Pourbagheri-SigaroodiDepartment of Hematology and Blood Banking, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Parisa ZafariDepartment of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Nader BagheriCellular and Molecular Research Center, Basic Health Sciences Institute, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
Seyed H GhaffariHematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Shariati Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Davood BashashDepartment of Hematology and Blood Banking, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-8029-4920
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRMazandaran University of Medical Sciences · IRShahrekord University of Medical Sciences · IRShariati Hospital · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the dark path of tumorigenesis, the more carefully the cancer biology is studied, the more brilliant answers could be given to the countless questions about its orchestrating derivers. The identification of the correlation between Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and different processes involved in carcinogenesis was one of the single points of blinding light highlighting the interconnection between the immune system and cancer. TLRs are a wide family of single-pass membrane-spanning receptors that have developed through the evolution to recognize the structurally conserved molecules derived from microorganisms or damaged cells. But this is not everything about these receptors as they could orchestrate several downstream signalling pathways leading to the formation or suppression of cancer cells. The present review is tempted to provide a concise schematic about the biology and the characters of TLRs and also summarize the major findings of the regulatory role of TLRs and their associated signalling in the pathogenesis of human cancers.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansInflammationNeoplasmsReceptors, ImmunologicSignal TransductionToll-Like ReceptorsReceptors, ImmunologicToll-Like Receptorscancerimmune systeminflammationpattern-recognition receptorToll-like receptor (TLR)

Identifiers

PMID33336901
PMCPMC7812258
OpenAlexW3117822930

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