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ReviewCancers2025

ANGPTL4: A Comprehensive Review of 25 Years of Research.

Pedro Ramos, Qiongyu Shi, Jeremy Kleberg, Chandra K Maharjan, Weizhou Zhang, Ryan Kolb

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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

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  7. Distinguishing causal from tagging enhancers using single-cell multiome data.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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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

6 authors.

Pedro RamosDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-4382-9054
Qiongyu ShiDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Jeremy KlebergDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-7231-7158
Chandra K MaharjanDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0673-9888
Weizhou ZhangDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8236-0346
Ryan KolbDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.

Funding

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Support GrantP30CA247796 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Alison Ivey · 2023 to 2026
$10.9M
Proteolysis targeting chimera against nuclear receptor NR4A1 for melanoma therapyR01CA290792 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Keiran Smalley, Weizhou Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Exploring novel therapeutic strategies for combinatory therapy to treat renal clear cell carcinomasR01CA269661 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Weizhou Zhang · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
The role of Angiopoietin-like 4 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma and its therapeutic potentialR01CA288749 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Ryan H Kolb · 2025 to 2026
$719k
DOD/CDMRP BC200100NCI NIH HHS P30 CA247796NCI NIH HHS R01 CA269661NCI NIH HHS R01 CA288749NCI NIH HHS R01 CA290792NIH HHS CA260239NIH HHS CA269662NIH HHS CA290792NIH HHS R01CA288749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) is a secreted glycoprotein that was discovered in 2000 by three independent laboratories. In the ensuing two and a half decades, extensive work has been conducted to determine its physiological and pathological functions. ANGPTL4 has been shown to be involved in many biological processes, including glucose and lipid metabolism, angiogenesis, and wound healing, with implications in diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular (e.g., atherosclerosis) and renal diseases, and cancer. For instance, ANGPTL4 is upregulated in several cancers, including renal cell carcinoma, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. Interestingly, ANGPTL4 has been shown to exhibit both pro-tumor-promoting tumor growth, cell survival, angiogenesis and metastasis-as well as anti-tumor activities, underscoring its complex roles in cancer biology. This review examines the comprehensive biological functions of ANGPTL4 and its contributions to disease mechanisms with a specific emphasis on cancer, as well as its potential as a therapeutic target across different types of human cancers.

Indexed as

angiogenesisangiopoietin-like 4biomarkerlipid metabolismmetastasistherapeutic targetvascular permeability

Identifiers

PMID40723247
PMCPMC12293468

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