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ReviewAsian biomedicine : research, reviews and news2022

Dichotomous role of autophagy in cancer.

Amin Arif, Muhammad Babar Khawar, Rabia Mehmood, Muddasir Hassan Abbasi, Nadeem Sheikh

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Review in Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Autophagy: The convergence point of aging and cancer.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Amin ArifInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3897-0518
Muhammad Babar KhawarInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9356-2787
Rabia MehmoodInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-0591
Muddasir Hassan AbbasiInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-7013
Nadeem SheikhInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-9538

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved catabolic process that plays physiological and pathological roles in a cell. Its effect on cellular metabolism, the proteome, and the number and quality of organelles, diversely holds the potential to alter cellular functions. It acts paradoxically in cancer as a tumor inhibitor as well as a tumor promoter. In the early stage of tumorigenesis, it prevents tumor initiation by the so-called "quality control mechanism" and suppresses cancer progression. For late-staged tumors that are exposed to stress, it acts as a vibrant process of degradation and recycling that promotes cancer by facilitating metastasis. Despite this dichotomy, the crucial role of autophagy is evident in cancer, and associated with mammalian targets of rapamycin (mTOR), p53, and Ras-derived major cancer networks. Irrespective of the controversy regarding autophagic manipulation, promotion and suppression of autophagy act as potential therapeutic targets in cancer treatment and may provide various anticancer therapies.

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autophagycarcinogenesisneoplasmspathologyrecycling therapeutics

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PMID37551378
PMCPMC10321184

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