Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41652181›Full record

ArticleExperimental dermatology2026

PI3Kγ Deficiency Suppresses Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Formation by Modulating the Tumour Microenvironment Rather Than by Directly Regulating Keratinocyte Proliferation.

Aya Toyoshima, Natsuko Noguchi, Tomoko Suzuki, Takako Kuroki, Masami Kagaya, Fumino Oda, Michihiro Kono, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Hidehisa Saeki and 1 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Experimental dermatology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. 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

11 authors.

Aya ToyoshimaDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4236-4278
Natsuko NoguchiDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0060-4125
Tomoko SuzukiDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Takako KurokiDepartment of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Masami KagayaDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Fumino OdaDepartment of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Michihiro KonoDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-1583
Junko SasakiDepartment of Biochemical Pathophysiology/Lipid Biology, Medical Research Institute, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-3791
Takehiko SasakiDepartment of Biochemical Pathophysiology/Lipid Biology, Medical Research Institute, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1837-3748
Hidehisa SaekiDepartment of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1095-0355
Shin-Ichi OsadaDepartment of Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5387-085X

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 20K08698Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 23K07752
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) is a central regulator of cell proliferation, survival, metabolism, and migration via the downstream AKT/mTOR pathway. Although activating mutations in the catalytic subunit of PI3Kα (p110α) have been documented in various cancers, including cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the role of PI3Kγ (p110γ), which is predominantly expressed in immune cells, remains poorly defined in cSCC. To elucidate the function of p110γ in cSCC development, we compared tumour formation in wild-type and p110γ-deficient mice using both a chemical carcinogenesis model and a syngeneic cSCC cell implantation model. While genetic deletion or pharmacological inhibition of PI3Kγ did not affect keratinocyte proliferation or migration in vitro, p110γ-deficient mice exhibited significantly delayed tumour onset, reduced tumour burden, and suppressed growth of implanted cSCC tumours in vivo. Immunohistochemical analyses revealed that total CD4

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Squamous CellClass Ib Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinaseKeratinocytesSkin NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell MovementCell ProliferationCutaneous Squamous Cell CarcinomaForkhead Transcription FactorsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryClass Ib Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinaseForkhead Transcription FactorsFoxp3 protein, mousePik3cg protein, mousechemical carcinogenesiscutaneous squamous cell carcinomaPI3Kγtumour microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID41652181
PMCPMC12880963

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.