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ArticleAdvances in neurobiology2024

The Opioid Growth Factor in Growth Regulation and Immune Responses in Cancer.

Gerald R Hankins, Robert T Harris

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Article in Advances in neurobiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 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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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Opioid Signaling in Multiple Sclerosis: Emerging Targets for Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gerald R HankinsDepartment of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, USA. ghankins@wvstateu.edu.
Robert T HarrisDepartment of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has become apparent that endogenous opioids act not only as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, but have multiple functions in the body. Activation of the opioid system by opiate drugs is associated with a risk of cancer development through direct stimulation of tumor cell proliferation and through immunosuppression. In contrast, the endogenous peptide opioid [Met

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NeoplasmsReceptors, OpioidAnimalsCell ProliferationEnkephalin, MethionineHumansOpioid PeptidesEnkephalin, Methioninemethionine-enkephalin receptorOpioid PeptidesReceptors, OpioidCancerEndogenous opioidsImmunologyOpioid growth factor

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