Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30911935›Full record

ReviewMolecular neurobiology2019

The Role of Brain Vasculature in Glioblastoma.

J Robert Kane

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Review in Molecular neurobiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Drug resistance in glioblastoma: from chemo- to immunotherapy.Cancer drug resistance (Alhambra, Calif.) · 2023
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

J Robert KaneDepartments of Pathology and Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. jrkane@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1351-8218
Northwestern University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For normal functioning, the brain requires an adequate supply of blood. The components of normal brain vasculature are collectively referred to as the neurovascular unit. When the brain develops pathology, the structural and functional components of brain vasculature become compromised. This is evidenced in the case of neoplasia where the integrity of the vasculature is co-opted to further the neoplastic processes that require exponential blood resupply in order to facilitate the diffusion radius of tumor growth. Glioblastoma changes the brain vasculature in such a way that advances the tumor's progress while making it more resistant to standard modes of treatment. While the brain vasculature is changed as a result of glioblastoma growth and progression, it is also changed to advance the invasiveness of the tumor. The diagnostic criteria for glioblastoma is correlated with advanced neovascularization processes that change the previously existing vasculature into that which is morphologically atypical and in a dysfunctional state. Advancing therapies to treat glioblastoma must understand normal brain vasculature and how it is changed as a result of tumor growth.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainBrain NeoplasmsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmGlioblastomaHumansAntiangiogenesis therapyBlood brain barrierBrain vasculatureEdemaGlioblastomaGliomaNeovascularizationNeurovascular unit

Identifiers

PMID30911935
OpenAlexW2924495797

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