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ReviewJournal of medicinal chemistry2021

Recent Advances in the Development of Sigma Receptor Ligands as Cytotoxic Agents: A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective.

Antonino N Fallica, Valeria Pittalà, Maria N Modica, Loredana Salerno, Giuseppe Romeo, Agostino Marrazzo, Mohamed A Helal, Sebastiano Intagliata

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Review in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Antonino N FallicaDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.
Valeria PittalàDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1856-0308
Maria N ModicaDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6350-931X
Loredana SalernoDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6458-3717
Giuseppe RomeoDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2160-4164
Agostino MarrazzoDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8728-8857
Mohamed A HelalUniversity of Science and Technology, Biomedical Sciences Program, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, sixth of October, Giza 12578, Egypt.
Sebastiano IntagliataDepartment of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0201-1745

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since their discovery as distinct receptor proteins, the specific physiopathological role of sigma receptors (σRs) has been deeply investigated. It has been reported that these proteins, classified into two subtypes indicated as σ

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorHeterocyclic CompoundsHumansLigandsMolecular StructureReceptors, sigmaStructure-Activity RelationshipAntineoplastic AgentsHeterocyclic CompoundsLigandsReceptors, sigma

Identifiers

PMID34076441
PMCPMC8279423

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