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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Molecular, Cellular, and Technical Aspects of Breast Cancer Cell Lines as a Foundational Tool in Cancer Research.

Brittany L Witt, Trygve O Tollefsbol

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In one paragraph

Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
10.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brittany L WittDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 902 14th Street, Birmingham, AL 35228, USA.
Trygve O TollefsbolDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 902 14th Street, Birmingham, AL 35228, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0284-1511
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Combinatorial epigenetic-based prevention of breast cancerR01CA178441 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI TOLLEFSBOL, TRYGVE O · 2014 to 2025
$3.2M
Early life prevention of breast cancer with combined epigenetic botanicalsR01CA204346 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI TOLLEFSBOL, TRYGVE O · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA178441NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204346
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer comprises about 30% of all new female cancers each year and is the most common malignant cancer in women in the United States. Breast cancer cell lines have been harnessed for many years as a foundation for in vitro analytic studies to understand the use of cancer prevention and therapy. There has yet to be a compilation of works to analyze the pitfalls, novel discoveries, and essential techniques for breast cancer cell line studies in a scientific context. In this article, we review the history of breast cancer cell lines and their origins, as well as analyze the molecular pathways that pharmaceutical drugs apply to breast cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo. Controversies regarding the origins of certain breast cancer cell lines, the benefits of utilizing Patient-Derived Xenograft (PDX) versus Cell-Derived Xenograft (CDX), and 2D versus 3D cell culturing techniques will be analyzed. Novel outcomes from epigenetic discovery with dietary compound usage are also discussed. This review is intended to create a foundational tool that will aid investigators when choosing a breast cancer cell line to use in multiple expanding areas such as epigenetic discovery, xenograft experimentation, and cancer prevention, among other areas.

Indexed as

breast cancercancer preventioncancer therapycell linesepigeneticsmolecular pathwaysxenograft

Identifiers

PMID38137912
PMCPMC10744609
OpenAlexW4389487887

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Registered trials

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