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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in the Light of Plasticity and Hybrid E/M States.

Laura Bornes, Guillaume Belthier, Jacco van Rheenen

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. The role and regulation of integrins in cell migration and invasion.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  14. Factors Determining Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  16. CTHRC1Scientific reports · 2024
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura BornesOncode Institute, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Pathology, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9721-1223
Guillaume BelthierOncode Institute, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Pathology, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jacco van RheenenOncode Institute, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Pathology, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8175-1647
The Netherlands Cancer Institute · NL

Funding

"la Caixa" Foundation 100010434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular program which leads to cells losing epithelial features, including cell polarity, cell-cell adhesion and attachment to the basement membrane, while gaining mesenchymal characteristics, such as invasive properties and stemness. This program is involved in embryogenesis, wound healing and cancer progression. Over the years, the role of EMT in cancer progression has been heavily debated, and the requirement of this process in metastasis even has been disputed. In this review, we discuss previous discrepancies in the light of recent findings on EMT, plasticity and hybrid E/M states. Moreover, we highlight various tumor microenvironmental cues and cell intrinsic signaling pathways that induce and sustain EMT programs, plasticity and hybrid E/M states. Lastly, we discuss how recent findings on plasticity, especially on those that enable cells to switch between hybrid E/M states, have changed our understanding on the role of EMT in cancer metastasis, stemness and therapy resistance.

Indexed as

EMPepithelia-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)hybrid E/M statesplasticitystemnesstherapy resistancetumor progression

Identifiers

PMID34072345
PMCPMC8197992
OpenAlexW3165817854

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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