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ReviewCancers2021

Do Extracellular RNAs Provide Insight into Uveal Melanoma Biology?

Cristina Barbagallo, Chiara Bianca Maria Platania, Filippo Drago, Davide Barbagallo, Cinzia Di Pietro, Michele Purrello, Claudio Bucolo, Marco Ragusa

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Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gene therapy for uveal melanoma.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  2. Role of miRNA in adult ocular tumorigenesis.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025
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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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cristina BarbagalloDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Biology and Genetics, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6769-4516
Chiara Bianca Maria PlataniaDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Filippo DragoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Davide BarbagalloDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Biology and Genetics, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5331-4554
Cinzia Di PietroDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Biology and Genetics, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6036-4469
Michele PurrelloDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Biology and Genetics, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8873-3660
Claudio BucoloDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4879-4140
Marco RagusaDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences-Section of Biology and Genetics, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4282-920X
University of Catania · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults, showing a high mortality due to metastasis. Although it is considered a rare disease, a growing number of papers have reported altered levels of RNAs (i.e., coding and non-coding RNAs) in cancerous tissues and biological fluids from UM patients. The presence of circulating RNAs, whose dysregulation is associated with UM, paved the way to the possibility of exploiting it for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. However, the biological meaning and the origin of such RNAs in blood and ocular fluids of UM patients remain unexplored. In this review, we report the state of the art of circulating RNAs in UM and debate whether the amount and types of RNAs measured in bodily fluids mirror the RNA alterations from source cancer cells. Based on literature data, extracellular RNAs in UM patients do not represent, with rare exceptions, a snapshot of RNA dysregulations occurring in cancerous tissues, but rather the complex and heterogeneous outcome of a systemic dysfunction, including immune system activity, that modifies the mechanisms of RNA delivery from several cell types.

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cancercirculating RNAeyelncRNAmiRNAmRNARNA carrierUM

Identifiers

PMID34885029
PMCPMC8657116
OpenAlexW3215943273

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