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ReviewCancers2022

Tumor Necrosis Factor: What Is in a Name?

Xinming Wang, Chunlan Yang, Heinrich Körner, Chaoliang Ge

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Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xinming WangDepartment of Pharmacy, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
Chunlan YangDepartment of Pharmacy, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.
Heinrich KörnerMenzies Institute for Medical Research, Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
Chaoliang GeDepartment of Pharmacy, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China.

Funding

Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation 2008085QH400Clinical Science Foundation of Anhui Medical University 2021xkj148Key Laboratory of Anti-inflammatory and Immune Medicine, Ministry of Education, P. R. of China Anhui Medical University, KFJJ-2020_03National Natural Science Foundation of China 82104185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor Necrosis Factor was one of the first cytokines described in the literature as a soluble mediator of cytotoxicity to tumors. Over the years, more extensive research that tried to employ Tumor Necrosis Factor in cancer treatments showed nevertheless that it mainly functioned as a proinflammatory cytokine. However, this did not stop the search for the holy grail of cancer research: A cytokine that could act as a one-stop treatment for solid tumors and lymphomas. This review will summarize the long experimental history of Tumor Necrosis Factor that caused the initial observations of a tumor necrotizing cytokine that could serve as a potential cancer treatment and discuss the current state of research into this side of the activities of Tumor Necrosis Factor.

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cancerinflammationTNF

Identifiers

PMID36358688
PMCPMC9656125

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