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ArticleInnovation (Cambridge (Mass.))2024

Metabolic collaboration between cells in the tumor microenvironment has a negligible effect on tumor growth.

Johan Gustafsson, Fariba Roshanzamir, Anders Hagnestål, Sagar M Patel, Oseeyi I Daudu, Donald F Becker, Jonathan L Robinson, Jens Nielsen

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Article in Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Targeting Lung Cancer Metabolism: Therapeutic Opportunities and Challenges.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Brain energy metabolism is optimized to minimize the cost of enzyme synthesis and transport.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
    Article
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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Johan GustafssonDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE- 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Fariba RoshanzamirDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE- 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Anders HagnestålHagnesia AB, SE-43854 Hindås, Sweden.
Sagar M PatelDepartment of Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Oseeyi I DauduDepartment of Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Donald F BeckerDepartment of Biochemistry and Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Jonathan L RobinsonDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE- 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jens NielsenDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE- 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln · USBioInnovation Institute · DKChalmers University of Technology · SE

Funding

Investigating the Proline Cycle as a Potential Cancer Therapy TargetR01GM132640 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI Donald F Becker, JOHN J TANNER · 2020 to 2026
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132640
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tumor microenvironment is composed of a complex mixture of different cell types interacting under conditions of nutrient deprivation, but the metabolism therein is not fully understood due to difficulties in measuring metabolic fluxes and exchange of metabolites between different cell types

Identifiers

PMID38445018
PMCPMC10912649
OpenAlexW4391349679

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