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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2021

The Role of Decorin and Biglycan Signaling in Tumorigenesis.

Valentina Diehl, Lisa Sophie Huber, Jonel Trebicka, Malgorzata Wygrecka, Renato V Iozzo, Liliana Schaefer

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Molecular predictors of recurrence in vestibular schwannomas: a transcriptomic and RT-qPCR analysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  15. Decorin: matrix-based pan-cancer tumor suppressor.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Valentina DiehlInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Lisa Sophie HuberInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Jonel TrebickaDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Malgorzata WygreckaCenter for Infection and Genomics of the Lung, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany.
Renato V IozzoDepartment of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology and the Translational Cellular Oncology Program, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Liliana SchaeferInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Goethe University Frankfurt · DESidney Kimmel Cancer Center · USUniversities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex and adaptive nature of malignant neoplasm constitute a major challenge for the development of effective anti-oncogenic therapies. Emerging evidence has uncovered the pivotal functions exerted by the small leucine-rich proteoglycans, decorin and biglycan, in affecting tumor growth and progression. In their soluble forms, decorin and biglycan act as powerful signaling molecules. By receptor-mediated signal transduction, both proteoglycans modulate key processes vital for tumor initiation and progression, such as autophagy, inflammation, cell-cycle, apoptosis, and angiogenesis. Despite of their structural homology, these two proteoglycans interact with distinct cell surface receptors and thus modulate distinct signaling pathways that ultimately affect cancer development. In this review, we summarize growing evidence for the complex roles of decorin and biglycan signaling in tumor biology and address potential novel therapeutic implications.

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angiogenesisautophagycancerextracellular matrixinflammationproteoglycantoll-like receptor

Identifiers

PMID34917515
PMCPMC8668865
OpenAlexW3215786983

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