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ReviewBioscience reports2018

Dropping in on lipid droplets: insights into cellular stress and cancer.

Peter Shyu, Xing Fah Alex Wong, Karen Crasta, Guillaume Thibault

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In one paragraph

Review in Bioscience reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Peter ShyuSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551.
Xing Fah Alex WongLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 308232.
Karen CrastaSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551 kccrasta@ntu.edu.sg thibault@ntu.edu.sg.
Guillaume ThibaultSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551 kccrasta@ntu.edu.sg thibault@ntu.edu.sg.
Nanyang Technological University · SGInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid droplets (LD) have increasingly become a major topic of research in recent years following its establishment as a highly dynamic organelle. Contrary to the initial view of LDs being passive cytoplasmic structures for lipid storage, studies have provided support on how they act in concert with different organelles to exert functions in various cellular processes. Although lipid dysregulation resulting from aberrant LD homeostasis has been well characterised, how this translates and contributes to cancer progression is poorly understood. This review summarises the different paradigms on how LDs function in the regulation of cellular stress as a contributing factor to cancer progression. Mechanisms employed by a broad range of cancer cell types in differentially utilising LDs for tumourigenesis will also be highlighted. Finally, we discuss the potential of targeting LDs in the context of cancer therapeutics.

Indexed as

AdipocytesHomeostasisHumansLipid DropletsLipid MetabolismLipidsNeoplasmsStress, PhysiologicalLipidscancer progressioncell stresschemoresistancelipid droplets

Identifiers

PMID30111611
PMCPMC6146295
OpenAlexW2887947291

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