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ArticleEuropean journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP)2022

Consumption of meat containing ractopamine might enhance tumor growth through induction of asparagine synthetase.

Frank S Fan

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Article in European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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Frank S FanDepartment of Medicine, Section of Haematology and Oncology, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taitung Hospital, Taitung County, Taiwan.
Ministry of Health and Welfare · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is currently no evidence of the carcinogenic effect of the β-adrenergic agonist ractopamine added in finishing swine and cattle feed for promoting leanness. Nonetheless, it has the capability of stimulating expression of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) through activating transcription factor 5, and many other genes involved in the stress reaction in the skeletal muscle of pigs according to published scientific articles. Because overexpression of ASNS has been detected as a key player in amino acid response and unfolded protein response during the development of not a few malignant diseases, especially those with KRAS mutations, and found to be closely related to tumor proliferation, invasion and metastasis, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that intake of ractopamine residue in meat might bring negative effects to cancer patients.

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Aspartate-Ammonia LigaseNeoplasmsAnimalsCattleHumansMeatPhenethylaminesSwineAspartate-Ammonia LigasePhenethylaminesractopamine

Identifiers

PMID33369951
PMCPMC8638813
OpenAlexW3115118493

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