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ReviewTrends in cell biology2021

Circadian regulation of cancer cell and tumor microenvironment crosstalk.

Wenjing Xuan, Fatima Khan, Charles David James, Amy B Heimberger, Maciej S Lesniak, Peiwen Chen

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In one paragraph

Review in Trends in cell biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
82citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

82 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Circadian rhythms and lung cancer biology and immunotherapy: Emerging opportunities and challenges.Chinese medical journal pulmonary and critical care medicine · 2026
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  14. Circadian clock and cancer.Military Medical Research · 2026
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  20. Circadian genesJournal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2025
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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wenjing XuanDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Fatima KhanDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Charles David JamesDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Amy B HeimbergerDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Maciej S LesniakDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Peiwen ChenDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: peiwen.chen@northwestern.edu.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

STINGing GBM: A First-in- Man Clinical Trial in Surgical Resectable Recurrent GBMP50CA221747 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Atique U. Ahmed · 2018 to 2026
$21.4M
Mechanism and therapeutic potential of macrophage regulation in glioblastomaR00CA240896 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI CHEN, PEIWEN · 2020 to 2022
$663k
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA221747NCI NIH HHS R00 CA240896
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circadian rhythms regulate a remarkable variety of physiologic functions in living organisms. Circadian disruption is associated with tumorigenesis and tumor progression through effects on cancer cell biological properties, including proliferation, DNA repair, apoptosis, metabolism, and stemness. Emerging evidence indicates that circadian clocks also play an influential role in the tumor microenvironment (TME). This review outlines recent discoveries on how cancer cell clock components (including circadian clock and clock genes/proteins) regulate TME biology and, reciprocally, how TME clock components affect tumor growth, metastasis, and therapeutic response. An improved understanding of how clock components regulate the symbiosis between cancer cells and the TME will inform the development of novel clock-oriented therapeutic strategies, including immunotherapy.

Indexed as

Circadian ClocksTumor MicroenvironmentCarcinogenesisCircadian RhythmCLOCK ProteinsHumansCLOCK Proteinscircadian rhythmsCLOCKcrosstalksymbiosistumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID34272133
PMCPMC8526375
OpenAlexW3179765823

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