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ArticleDevelopment & reproduction2021

Antitumor Effect of Metformin in Combination with Binimetinib on Melanoma Cells.

Eunsung Lee, Yongjae Kwon, Jiwon Kim, Deokbae Park, Youngki Lee

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Article in Development & reproduction, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Eunsung LeeDepartment of Medicine, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju 63243, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8270-0163
Yongjae KwonDepartment of Medicine, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju 63243, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-9445
Jiwon KimDepartment of Medicine, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju 63243, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5984-3219
Deokbae ParkDepartment of Histology, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju 63243, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0387-8279
Youngki LeeDepartment of Histology, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju 63243, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-3352

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cutaneous melanoma is a fatal disease for patients with distant metastasis. Metformin is the most widely used anti-diabetic drug, and proved to suppress cell proliferation and metastasis in diverse cancers including melanoma. We previously reported that MEK inhibitor trametinib increases the expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) regulators and melanoma cell motility, which are suppressed by addition of metformin in A375 melanoma cells. To confirm our findings further, we first evaluated the effect of metformin in combination with another MEK inhibitor binimetinib on cell viability in G361 melanoma cells. We then investigated whether binimetinib affects the expression of EMT regulators and cell motility. We finally monitored the effect of metformin on binimetinib-induced cell migration. Cell viability assay showed that combination index (CI) value at ED

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BinimetinibCell viabilityMelanoma cellMetastasisMetformin

Identifiers

PMID34386644
PMCPMC8328479

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