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ReviewCellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology2022

Uncertain Beginnings: Acinar and Ductal Cell Plasticity in the Development of Pancreatic Cancer.

Adrien Grimont, Steven D Leach, Rohit Chandwani

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Review in Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Pancreatic cancer.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026
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  3. Opportunities to Avoid Invasive Cancer by Diagnosis and Interception of Preneoplastic Lesions and Cancer Risk Conditions.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2026
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  9. In Vivo Regenerative Potential ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  15. Allelic effects onmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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  17. New avenues for the treatment of immunotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer.World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2024
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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Adrien GrimontDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Steven D LeachNorris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Rohit ChandwaniDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York. Electronic address: roc9045@med.cornell.edu.
Cornell University · USDartmouth College · US

Funding

Comprehensive genetic dissection of druggable KRAS targetsR01CA204228 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI LEACH, STEVEN D · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pancreas consists of several specialized cell types that display a remarkable ability to alter cellular identity in injury, regeneration, and repair. The abundant cellular plasticity within the pancreas appears to be exploited in tumorigenesis, with metaplastic, dedifferentiation, and transdifferentiation processes central to the development of pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia and intraductal papillary neoplasms, precursor lesions to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. In the face of shifting cellular identity, the cell of origin of pancreatic cancer has been difficult to elucidate. However, with the extensive utilization of in vivo lineage-traced mouse models coupled with insights from human samples, it has emerged that the acinar cell is most efficiently able to give rise to both intraductal papillary neoplasms and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia but that acinar and ductal cells can undergo malignant transformation to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. In this review, we discuss the cellular reprogramming that takes place in both the normal and malignant pancreas and evaluate the current state of evidence that implicate both the acinar and ductal cell as context-dependent origins of this deadly disease.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalPancreatic NeoplasmsAcinar CellsAnimalsCell PlasticityMicePancreasacinar cells, ductal cells, cell-of-origin, pancreatic cancer, IPMN, PanIN, lineage-tracing, mouse models

Identifiers

PMID34352406
PMCPMC8688164
OpenAlexW3192225530

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