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ReviewMetabolites2021

Metabolomics-Microbiome Crosstalk in the Breast Cancer Microenvironment.

Mysoon M Al-Ansari, Reem H AlMalki, Lina A Dahabiyeh, Anas M Abdel Rahman

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Review in Metabolites, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. From gut to mouth: salivary signatures of carcinogenic microbiota.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  10. The MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cell Secretomes Modify Metabolomes ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  19. Proteomics Investigation of the Impact of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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

4 authors.

Mysoon M Al-AnsariDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Reem H AlMalkiDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Lina A DahabiyehDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0002-4688-7052
Anas M Abdel RahmanMetabolomics Section, Department of Clinical Genomics, Center for Genomics Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC), Zahrawi Street, Al Maather, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9527-9424

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer, the most frequent cancer diagnosed among females, is associated with a high mortality rate worldwide. Alterations in the microbiota have been linked with breast cancer development, suggesting the possibility of discovering disease biomarkers. Metabolomics has emerged as an advanced promising analytical approach for profiling metabolic features associated with breast cancer subtypes, disease progression, and response to treatment. The microenvironment compromises non-cancerous cells such as fibroblasts and influences cancer progression with apparent phenotypes. This review discusses the role of metabolomics in studying metabolic dysregulation in breast cancer caused by the effect of the tumor microenvironment on multiple cells such as immune cells, fibroblasts, adipocytes, etc. Breast tumor cells have a unique metabolic profile through the elevation of glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism. This metabolic profile is highly sensitive to microbiota activity in the breast tissue microenvironment. Metabolomics shows great potential as a tool for monitoring metabolic dysregulation in tissue and associating the findings with microbiome expression.

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breast cancermetabolomicsmicrobiomemicroenvironment

Identifiers

PMID34822416
PMCPMC8619468

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