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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2021

The Role of Succinic Acid Metabolism in Ovarian Cancer.

Lei Xia, Hairong Zhang, Xuezhen Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ke Nie

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lei XiaDepartment of Pathology, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Hairong ZhangDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China.
Xuezhen WangSchool of Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Xiaoyu ZhangSchool of Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Ke NieSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China.
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNGuangdong Pharmaceutical University · CNShandong Provincial Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common malignancies and the highest mortality among gynecological malignancy. The standard therapy options for patients with ovarian cancer are cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy, and although most patients do better with standard treatment, it is easy to relapse and be resistant to chemotherapy. Therefore, it is important to find new therapeutic strategies. More recently, metabolic reprogramming has been recognized as a hallmark of cancer and has become a potential target for tumor therapy. Mutations of metabolic enzymes are closely related to the development of ovarian cancer. The metabolic reprogramming of ovarian cancer not only provides energy to tumor cells, but also participates in various biological processes as signaling molecules. Succinic acid (SA) is an important metabolic intermediate involved in a number of metabolic pathways, such as TCA cycle and glutamine metabolism, and is also widely present in a variety of plants and vegetables. Studies show abnormal SA metabolism in many tumors and affect tumor formation through a variety of mechanisms. But the role of SA in ovarian cancer is less studied. This paper reviews the role of SA and its abnormal metabolic pathway in ovarian cancer.

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glutamineIDHSDHsuccinate acidSUCNR1

Identifiers

PMID34796116
PMCPMC8593202
OpenAlexW3208624945

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