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ReviewEndocrine reviews2023

Insulin/IGF Axis and the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products: Role in Meta-inflammation and Potential in Cancer Therapy.

Veronica Vella, Rosamaria Lappano, Eduardo Bonavita, Marcello Maggiolini, Robert Bryan Clarke, Antonino Belfiore, Ernestina Marianna De Francesco

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In one paragraph

Review in Endocrine reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Metabolic Modulation in Cancer Care: The Potential Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2026
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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Veronica VellaEndocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Rosamaria LappanoDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Eduardo BonavitaIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Oncoimmunology, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Marcello MaggioliniDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Robert Bryan ClarkeManchester Breast Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M204GJ, UK.
Antonino BelfioreEndocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Ernestina Marianna De FrancescoEndocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2810-6128
University of Catania · ITUniversity of Calabria · ITIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital · ITUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In metabolic conditions such as obesity and diabetes, which are associated with deregulated signaling of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor system (IIGFs), inflammation plays a dominant role. In cancer, IIGFs is implicated in disease progression, particularly during obesity and diabetes; however, further mediators may act in concert with IIGFs to trigger meta-inflammation. The receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) and its ligands bridge together metabolism and inflammation in obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Herein, we summarize the main mechanisms of meta-inflammation in malignancies associated with obesity and diabetes; we provide our readers with the most recent understanding and conceptual advances on the role of RAGE at the crossroad between impaired metabolism and inflammation, toward disease aggressiveness. We inform on the potential hubs of cross-communications driven by aberrant RAGE axis and dysfunctional IIGFs in the tumor microenvironment. Furthermore, we offer a rationalized view on the opportunity to terminate meta-inflammation via targeting RAGE pathway, and on the possibility to shut its molecular connections with IIGFs, toward a better control of diabetes- and obesity-associated cancers.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsSomatomedinsGlycation End Products, AdvancedHumansInflammationInsulinObesityReceptor for Advanced Glycation End ProductsTumor MicroenvironmentAGER protein, humanGlycation End Products, AdvancedInsulinReceptor for Advanced Glycation End ProductsSomatomedinscancerdiabetesinsulin/IGF systemmeta-inflammationobesityRAGE

Identifiers

PMID36869790
PMCPMC10335176
OpenAlexW4323067154

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