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ReviewCancers2021

The Adhesome Network: Key Components Shaping the Tumour Stroma.

Pinelopi A Nikolopoulou, Maria A Koufaki, Vassiliki Kostourou

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pinelopi A NikolopoulouBiomedical Sciences Research Centre "Alexander Fleming", Institute of Bioinnovation, 34 Fleming Str., 16672 Vari-Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5102-8132
Maria A KoufakiBiomedical Sciences Research Centre "Alexander Fleming", Institute of Bioinnovation, 34 Fleming Str., 16672 Vari-Athens, Greece.
Vassiliki KostourouBiomedical Sciences Research Centre "Alexander Fleming", Institute of Bioinnovation, 34 Fleming Str., 16672 Vari-Athens, Greece.
Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center · GR

Funding

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation HFRI-FM17-2644Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation" (NSRF 2014-2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) 5002755WWCR 16-1240
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beyond the conventional perception of solid tumours as mere masses of cancer cells, advanced cancer research focuses on the complex contributions of tumour-associated host cells that are known as "tumour microenvironment" (TME). It has been long appreciated that the tumour stroma, composed mainly of blood vessels, cancer-associated fibroblasts and immune cells, together with the extracellular matrix (ECM), define the tumour architecture and influence cancer cell properties. Besides soluble cues, that mediate the crosstalk between tumour and stroma cells, cell adhesion to ECM arises as a crucial determinant in cancer progression. In this review, we discuss how adhesome, the intracellular protein network formed at cell adhesions, regulate the TME and control malignancy. The role of adhesome extends beyond the physical attachment of cells to ECM and the regulation of cytoskeletal remodelling and acts as a signalling and mechanosensing hub, orchestrating cellular responses that shape the tumour milieu.

Indexed as

adhesomecancer-associated fibroblastsendothelial cellsfocal adhesion sitesimmune cellsmural cellstumour microenvironmenttumour stroma

Identifiers

PMID33573141
PMCPMC7866493
OpenAlexW3128666421

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