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ReviewCancer letters2022

Macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 in cancer: Beyond the cellular phenotype.

Sakthivel Muniyan, Ramesh Pothuraju, Parthasarathy Seshacharyulu, Surinder K Batra

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Review in Cancer letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Growth differentiation factor 15: a promising biomarker in oral cancer.Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · 2025
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  6. Hallmarks of Cancer Cachexia: Sexual Dimorphism in Related Pathways.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  8. The metabolic basis of cancer-related fatigue.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025
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  11. GDF-15 Predicts Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Aggressiveness and Is Downregulated by Sirolimus through ATF4/ATF5 Suppression.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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  14. Metabolic Crosstalk between Liver and Brain: From Diseases to Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. Macrophages as a Source and Target of GDF-15.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sakthivel MuniyanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA. Electronic address: s.muniyan@unmc.edu.
Ramesh PothurajuDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA.
Parthasarathy SeshacharyuluDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA.
Surinder K BatraDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA; Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA; Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA. Electronic address: sbatra@unmc.edu.
University of Nebraska Medical Center · USNebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

Project 3: MUC16-Mediated Metabolic Reprograming Induces PC MetastasisP01CA217798 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI THAYER, SARAH P · 2018 to 2022
$8.1M
Urine and serum biomarkers for early diagnosis and risk assessment of pancreatic cancerR01CA254036 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BATRA, SURINDER K., BRAND, RANDALL · 2021 to 2025
$3.1M
Modulation of Tumor Microenvironment for Improved Therapy of Pancreatic CancerR01CA247471 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI BATRA, SURINDER K., JAIN, MANEESH · 2020 to 2024
$2.8M
Targeting CXCR2 axis in Pancreatic CancerR01CA228524 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI BATRA, SURINDER K., SINGH, RAKESH K · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
MIC-1 and its functional partners in prostate cancer racial disparityU01CA185148 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI BATRA, SURINDER K. · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA217798NCI NIH HHS R01 CA228524NCI NIH HHS R01 CA247471NCI NIH HHS R01 CA254036NCI NIH HHS U01 CA185148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite technological advances in diagnostic abilities and improved treatment methods, the burden of cancers remains high, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. One primary reason is that cancer cell secretory factors modulate the tumor microenvironment, supporting tumor growth and circumvents anticancer activities of conventional therapies. Macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1) is a pleiotropic cytokine elevated in various cancers. MIC-1 regulates various cancer hallmarks, including sustained proliferation, tumor-promoting inflammation, avoiding immune destruction, inducing invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, and resisting cell death. Despite these facts, the molecular regulation and downstream signaling of MIC-1 in cancer remain elusive, partly because its receptor (GFRAL) was unknown until recently. Binding of MIC-1 to GFRAL recruits the coreceptor tyrosine kinase RET to execute its downstream signaling. So far, studies have shown that GFRAL expression is restricted to the brain stem and is responsible for MIC-1/GFRAL/RET-mediated metabolic disorders. Nevertheless, abundant levels of MIC-1 expression have been reported in all cancer types and have been proposed as a surrogate biomarker. Given the ubiquitous expression of MIC-1 in cancers, it is crucial to understand both upstream regulation and downstream MIC-1/GFRAL/RET signaling in cancer hallmark traits.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsCytokinesGrowth Differentiation Factor 15HumansMacrophagesPhenotypeSignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentCytokinesGDF15 protein, humanGrowth Differentiation Factor 15CancerCancer hallmarksImmunosurveillanceMIC-1/GFRAL/RET signalingSurrogate biomarker

Identifiers

PMID35351601
PMCPMC9088220
OpenAlexW4220747994

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