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ReviewCancers2021

The Role of IGF/IGF-IR-Signaling and Extracellular Matrix Effectors in Bone Sarcoma Pathogenesis.

George N Tzanakakis, Eirini-Maria Giatagana, Aikaterini Berdiaki, Ioanna Spyridaki, Kyoko Hida, Monica Neagu, Aristidis M Tsatsakis, Dragana Nikitovic

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Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Targeted therapy for osteosarcoma: a review.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
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  16. Hippo pathway in intestinal diseases: focusing on ferroptosis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  20. Glycan Modulation of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Receptor.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

George N TzanakakisLaboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Eirini-Maria GiataganaLaboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Aikaterini BerdiakiLaboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Ioanna SpyridakiLaboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Kyoko HidaDepartment of Vascular Biology and Molecular Pathology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Sapporo 060-8586, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7968-6062
Monica NeaguDepartment of Immunology, Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology, 050096 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-9339-2805
Aristidis M TsatsakisLaboratory of Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3824-2462
Dragana NikitovicLaboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3882-7399

Funding

Research Committee of University of Crete (ELKE) KA:10028UEFISCDI PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0341/2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone sarcomas, mesenchymal origin tumors, represent a substantial group of varying neoplasms of a distinct entity. Bone sarcoma patients show a limited response or do not respond to chemotherapy. Notably, developing efficient chemotherapy approaches, dealing with chemoresistance, and preventing metastasis pose unmet challenges in sarcoma therapy. Insulin-like growth factors 1 and 2 (IGF-1 and -2) and their respective receptors are a multifactorial system that significantly contributes to bone sarcoma pathogenesis. Whereas failures have been registered in creating novel targeted therapeutics aiming at the IGF pathway, new agent development should continue, evaluating combinatorial strategies for enhancing antitumor responses and better classifying the patients that could best benefit from these therapies. A plausible approach for developing a combinatorial strategy is to focus on the tumor microenvironment (TME) and processes executed therein. Herewith, we will discuss how the interplay between IGF-signaling and the TME constituents affects sarcomas' basal functions and their response to therapy. This review highlights key studies focusing on IGF signaling in bone sarcomas, specifically studies underscoring novel properties that make this system an attractive therapeutic target and identifies new relationships that may be exploited. Potential direct and adjunct therapeutical implications of the extracellular matrix (ECM) effectors will also be summarized.

Indexed as

bone sarcomacancer therapyextracellular matrixIGF-1RIGF signalingproteoglycanstumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID34069554
PMCPMC8160938

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