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ArticleCancers2023

Modulation of the Tumor Microenvironment by Ellagic Acid in Rat Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Potential Target against Hepatic Cancer Stem Cells.

Wafaa S Ramadan, Saleh Alkarim, Mohammed Moulay, Ghadeer Alrefeai, Fatma Alkudsy, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Ashwaq Iskander

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Wafaa S RamadanDepartment of Clinical Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 22384, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8479-6426
Saleh AlkarimEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2217-1615
Mohammed MoulayEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
Ghadeer AlrefeaiEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0615-5321
Fatma AlkudsyEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1997-8549
Khalid Rehman HakeemDepartment of Biological Science, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7824-4695
Ashwaq IskanderDepartment of Biological Science, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdulaziz University · SAUniversité de Mostaganem · DZ

Funding

King Abdulaziz University IFPRC-218-248-2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The resistance to therapy and relapse in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is highly attributed to hepatic cancer stem cells (HCSCs). HCSCs are under microenvironment control. This work aimed to assess the systemic effect of ellagic acid (EA) on the HCC microenvironment to decline HCSCs. Fifty Wistar rats were divided into six groups: negative control (CON), groups 2 and 3 for solvents (DMSO), and (OVO). Group 4 was administered EA only. The (HCC-M) group, utilized as an HCC model, administered CCL4 (0.5 mL/kg in OVO) 1:1

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apoptosisCSCsHCC rat modelp53TGF alphaTGF betaVEGF

Identifiers

PMID37835585
PMCPMC10571579
OpenAlexW4387461123

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