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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer2021

Extracellular vesicles in urological malignancies.

Michael P Rimmer, Christopher D Gregory, Rod T Mitchell

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Biomarkers in Localized Prostate Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Review
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  5. Lipid-Based Nanovesicular Drug Delivery Systems.Nanomaterials (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

3 authors.

Michael P RimmerMRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: Michael.Rimmer@ed.ac.uk.
Christopher D GregoryCentre for Inflammation Research, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Rod T MitchellMRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: Rod.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N022556/1Medical Research Council MR/S017151/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipid bound structures released from cells containing bioactive cargoes. Both the type of cargo and amount loaded varies compared to that of the parent cell. The characterisation of EVs in cancers of the male urogenital tract has identified several cargoes with promising diagnostic and disease monitoring potential. EVs released by cancers of the male urogenital tract promote cell-to-cell communication, migration, cancer progression and manipulate the immune system promoting metastasis by evading the immune response. Their use as diagnostic biomarkers represents a new area of screening and disease detection, potentially reducing the need for invasive biopsies. Many validated EV cargoes have been found to have superior sensitivity and specificity than current diagnostic tools currently in use. The use of EVs to improve disease monitoring and develop novel therapeutics will enable clinicians to individualise patient management in the exciting era of personalised medicine.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorExtracellular VesiclesGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenital Neoplasms, MaleHumansMalePrognosisUrologic NeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorBiomarkerCancerEpididymosomesExtracellular vesiclesLiquid biopsyMale reproductive tractProstasomes

Identifiers

PMID34019971
PMCPMC8351753

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