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ReviewThe Saudi dental journal2021

Wnt pathway in oral cancer: A review update.

Nyi Mas Siti Purwaningsih, Goot Heah Khor, Nik Mohd Mazuan Nik Mohd Rosdy, Effat Omar Abdul Rahman

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Review in The Saudi dental journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Roles of Wnt ligands and receptors in oral squamous cell carcinoma.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nyi Mas Siti PurwaningsihCentre for Preclinical Science Studies, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
Goot Heah KhorCentre for Preclinical Science Studies, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
Nik Mohd Mazuan Nik Mohd RosdyCentre for Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic and Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
Effat Omar Abdul RahmanDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Jalan Hospital, 47000, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
Hospital Sungai Buloh · MYThe University of Melbourne · AUUniversiti Teknologi MARA · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Wnt signalling pathway involves in the pathogenesis of human diseases and one of the pathways that contribute to embryogenic development. Studies about the Wnt pathway have unfolded its regulation in many cancer cell mechanisms such as cell survival, migration, polarity, and cell multiplication. Moreover, the Wnt pathway has a significant role in cell fate determination and self-renewal in stem cells. Oral cancer shares significant concern among clinicians and researchers. However, there are only a few studies done on oral cancer and its correlation with the Wnt pathway. The expression of Wnt gene members in many malignancy diseases which included oral cancer has proven a high inverse correlation with malignancy diseases and malignancy progression. Metastasis which predominantly occurred through the lymphatic system has been the principal cause of mortality in oral cancer and affected to cancer stage, main tumour site, cancer cell differentiation and cancer cell adhesion potency. With intention of contributing to oral pathology and oral medicine research and knowledge advancement, particularly in the oral cancer area, this article presents current findings regarding the Wnt pathway and its multiple mechanisms associated with the treatment of oral carcinogenesis through Wnt pathway signalling.

Indexed as

Cancer therapeuticOral cancerSignalingSquamous cell carcinomaWnt pathway

Identifiers

PMID34938020
PMCPMC8665198
OpenAlexW3192810479

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