Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33946403›Full record

ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Visualizing Extracellular Vesicles and Their Function in 3D Tumor Microenvironment Models.

Evran E Ural, Victoria Toomajian, Ehsanul Hoque Apu, Mladen Veletic, Ilangko Balasingham, Nureddin Ashammakhi, Masamitsu Kanada, Christopher H Contag

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 36 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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Evran E UralInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8281-634X
Victoria ToomajianInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.
Ehsanul Hoque ApuInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6840-3787
Mladen VeleticIntervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital, N-0027 Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1960-8019
Ilangko BalasinghamIntervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital, N-0027 Oslo, Norway.
Nureddin AshammakhiInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0181-6055
Masamitsu KanadaInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9025-9582
Christopher H ContagInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.
Michigan State University · USOslo University Hospital · NOUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived nanostructures that mediate intercellular communication by delivering complex signals in normal tissues and cancer. The cellular coordination required for tumor development and maintenance is mediated, in part, through EV transport of molecular cargo to resident and distant cells. Most studies on EV-mediated signaling have been performed in two-dimensional (2D) monolayer cell cultures, largely because of their simplicity and high-throughput screening capacity. Three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures can be used to study cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions, enabling the study of EV-mediated cellular communication. 3D cultures may best model the role of EVs in formation of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and cancer cell-stromal interactions that sustain tumor growth. In this review, we discuss EV biology in 3D culture correlates of the TME. This includes EV communication between cell types of the TME, differences in EV biogenesis and signaling associated with differing scaffold choices and in scaffold-free 3D cultures and cultivation of the premetastatic niche. An understanding of EV biogenesis and signaling within a 3D TME will improve culture correlates of oncogenesis, enable molecular control of the TME and aid development of drug delivery tools based on EV-mediated signaling.

Indexed as

Tumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesExtracellular VesiclesHumansNeoplasmsTissue Scaffoldscell-to-matrix interactionsextracellular vesicles (EVs)scaffoldthree-dimensional (3D) cell culture modelstumor microenvironment (TME)

Identifiers

PMID33946403
PMCPMC8125158
OpenAlexW3158795299

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