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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2024

RAS/Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling Pathway in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.

Angelo Onorato, Eugenia Guida, Ambra Colopi, Susanna Dolci, Paola Grimaldi

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Angelo OnoratoDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Eugenia GuidaDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Ambra ColopiDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Susanna DolciDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6864-3673
Paola GrimaldiDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6724-7604
University of Rome Tor Vergata · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are relatively rare tumors. However, they are the most diagnosed malignancies occurring in the testis among men aged between 15 and 40 years. Despite high aneuploidy and a paucity of somatic mutations, several genomic and transcriptomic assays have identified a few significantly mutated somatic genes, primarily KIT and K-RAS. The receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) pathway and the downstream related Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) cascades are crucial signal transduction pathways that preside over various cellular processes, including proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and responses to stressors. They are well described in solid malignancies, where many of the involved factors are used as prognostic molecular markers or targets for precision therapy. This narrative review focused, in the first part, on PGCs' survival/proliferation and differentiation and on the genetic and epigenetic factors involved in the pathogenesis of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) and, in the second part, on the most recent investigations about the KIT-RAS pathway in TGCTs and in other cancers, highlighting the efforts that are being made to identify targetable markers for precision medicine approaches.

Indexed as

cancerepigeneticsKITMAPKPGCRAStesticular germ cell tumors (TGCTs)

Identifiers

PMID38541652
PMCPMC10971273
OpenAlexW4392357487

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