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ReviewExtracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids2024

Metabolic features of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles: challenges and opportunities.

Pilar Espiau-Romera, Andrés Gordo-Ortiz, Inés Ortiz-de-Solórzano, Patricia Sancho

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Review in Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

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  7. 80 years of extracellular vesicles: from discovery to clinical translation.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pilar Espiau-RomeraHospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza 50009, Spain.
Andrés Gordo-OrtizHospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza 50009, Spain.
Inés Ortiz-de-SolórzanoHospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza 50009, Spain.
Patricia SanchoHospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza 50009, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (TDEVs) play crucial roles in intercellular communication both in the local tumor microenvironment and systemically, facilitating tumor progression and metastatic spread. They carry a variety of molecules with bioactive properties, such as nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites, that trigger different signaling processes in receptor cells and induce, among other downstream effects, metabolic reprogramming. Interestingly, the cargo of TDEVs also reflects the metabolic status of the producing cells in a time- and context-dependent manner, providing information on the functionality and state of those cells. For these reasons, together with their ability to be detected in diverse biofluids, there is increasing interest in the study of TDEVs, particularly their metabolic cargo, as diagnostic and prognostic tools in cancer management. This review presents a compilation of metabolism-related molecules (enzymes and metabolites) described in cancer extracellular vesicles (EVs) with potential use as cancer biomarkers, and discusses the challenges arising in this rapidly evolving field.

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biomarkerscancerExtracellular vesiclesmetabolismmetabolites

Identifiers

PMID39697624
PMCPMC11648520

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