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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2023

The "sweet" path to cancer: focus on cellular glucose metabolism.

Carla Iacobini, Martina Vitale, Giuseppe Pugliese, Stefano Menini

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Diabetes and cancer: glucose control impact on survival and tumor outcomes.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026
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  2. [Research Progress on Glycolytic Reprogramming and Lactylation Crosstalk in Tumors].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carla IacobiniDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
Martina VitaleDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe PuglieseDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
Stefano MeniniDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), a key player in the adaptive regulation of energy metabolism, and the M2 isoform of the glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase (PKM2), a critical regulator of glucose consumption, are the main drivers of the metabolic rewiring in cancer cells. The use of glycolysis rather than oxidative phosphorylation, even in the presence of oxygen (i.e., Warburg effect or aerobic glycolysis), is a major metabolic hallmark of cancer. Aerobic glycolysis is also important for the immune system, which is involved in both metabolic disorders development and tumorigenesis. More recently, metabolic changes resembling the Warburg effect have been described in diabetes mellitus (DM). Scientists from different disciplines are looking for ways to interfere with these cellular metabolic rearrangements and reverse the pathological processes underlying their disease of interest. As cancer is overtaking cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of excess death in DM, and biological links between DM and cancer are incompletely understood, cellular glucose metabolism may be a promising field to explore in search of connections between cardiometabolic and cancer diseases. In this mini-review, we present the state-of-the-art on the role of the Warburg effect, HIF-1α, and PKM2 in cancer, inflammation, and DM to encourage multidisciplinary research to advance fundamental understanding in biology and pathways implicated in the link between DM and cancer.

Indexed as

aerobic glycolysisdiabetes mellitushypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-1αinflammationmethylglyoxal (MGO)oxidative phoshorylationpyruvate kinase M isoform 2Warburg effect

Identifiers

PMID37305566
PMCPMC10248238
OpenAlexW4378232188

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