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ReviewJournal of medicine and life2022

Clinical significance of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and carcinoembryonic antigen in gastric cancer.

Mihai Cătălin Roșu, Petrut Dinu Mihnea, Andrei Ardelean, Silviu Daniel Moldovan, Romana Olivia Popețiu, Bogdan Dan Totolici

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Review in Journal of medicine and life, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for pulmonary enteric adenocarcinoma.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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  6. Development and validation of a relatively accurate gastric cancer high-risk group screening scoring system in urban residents.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  11. Oral delivery of RNAi for cancer therapy.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2023
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  13. Tumor angiogenesis in gastric cancer.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
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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 1 country.

Mihai Cătălin RoșuDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania.
Petrut Dinu MihneaDepartment of General Surgery, Giurgiu County Emergency Hospital, Giurgiu, Romania.
Andrei ArdeleanDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania.
Silviu Daniel MoldovanDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania.
Romana Olivia PopețiuDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania.
Bogdan Dan TotoliciDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, Arad, Romania.
Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad · ROArad County Clinical Hospital · ROClinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α plays an important role in inflammatory, infectious, and tumor processes, and it is closely related to the early stages of gastric cancer. It is a pro-inflammatory cytokine, produced not only by macrophages and monocytes but also by the lymphocytes, mast cells, neutrophils, keratinocytes, smooth muscle cells, and some tumor cell lines. Large amounts of TNF are released upon contact of macrophages, CD4 + T lymphocytes, and natural killer (NK) cells with lipopolysaccharides, bacterial products, and interleukin 1. TNF-alpha inducing protein (Tipa) is a unique carcinogenic factor of Helicobacter pylori, secreted into culture broth. The biological activities of TNF alpha and deletion mutant were studied. TNF alpha protein specifically binds to cell-surface nucleolin and then enters the gastric cancer cells, where TNF-a and chemokine gene expressions are induced by NF-jB activation. Nucleolin localizes on the surface of gastric cancer cells, and interaction between TNF alpha and cell-surface nucleolin causes a cancer-oriented microenvironment that increases the risk of gastric cancer. This paper discusses a mechanism of gastric cancer development and the clinical significance of tumor necrosis-alpha and carcinoembryonic antigen in gastric cancer.

Indexed as

Helicobacter pyloriStomach NeoplasmsBacterial ProteinsCarcinoembryonic AntigenHumansTumor MicroenvironmentTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaBacterial ProteinsCarcinoembryonic AntigenTNF protein, humanTumor Necrosis Factor-alphacarcinoembryonic antigengastric cancerTNF alfatumor necrosis factor

Identifiers

PMID35186129
PMCPMC8852641
OpenAlexW4213244598

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