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ReviewCurrent issues in molecular biology2024

Nerve Growth Factor and the Role of Inflammation in Tumor Development.

Giampiero Ferraguti, Sergio Terracina, Luigi Tarani, Francesca Fanfarillo, Sara Allushi, Brunella Caronti, Paola Tirassa, Antonella Polimeni, Marco Lucarelli, Luca Cavalcanti and 2 more

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Review in Current issues in molecular biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
9.9field-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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 37 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

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Giampiero FerragutiDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6129-4071
Sergio TerracinaDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0748-8825
Luigi TaraniDepartment of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5958-9364
Francesca FanfarilloDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Sara AllushiDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Brunella CarontiDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University Hospital of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Paola TirassaInstitute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC-CNR), Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Antonella PolimeniDepartment of Odontostomatological and Maxillofacial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2679-7607
Marco LucarelliDepartment of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5538-2494
Luca CavalcantiDepartment of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3121-164X
Antonio GrecoDepartment of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4824-9871
Marco FioreInstitute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC-CNR), Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6806-9715
Sapienza University of Rome · ITIstituto Pasteur · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nerve growth factor (NGF) plays a dual role both in inflammatory states and cancer, acting both as a pro-inflammatory and oncogenic factor and as an anti-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic mediator in a context-dependent way based on the signaling networks and its interaction with diverse cellular components within the microenvironment. This report aims to provide a summary and subsequent review of the literature on the role of NGF in regulating the inflammatory microenvironment and tumor cell growth, survival, and death. The role of NGF in inflammation and tumorigenesis as a component of the inflammatory system, its interaction with the various components of the respective microenvironments, its ability to cause epigenetic changes, and its role in the treatment of cancer have been highlighted in this paper.

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apoptosiscancer stem cellsepigeneticinflammationmetastasismicroenvironmentneurotrophinsNGFtumor

Identifiers

PMID38392180
PMCPMC10888178
OpenAlexW4391174578

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