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ReviewCancer biology & therapy2025

Dual role of CXCL10 in cancer progression: implications for immunotherapy and targeted treatment‎.

Osama A Madkhali, Sivakumar S Moni, Yosif Almoshari, Fahad Y Sabei, Awaji Y Safhi

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Review in Cancer biology & therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Osama A MadkhaliDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi ‎‎‎Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5139-8408
Sivakumar S MoniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi ‎‎‎Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-4860-0166
Yosif AlmoshariDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi ‎‎‎Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8385-6693
Fahad Y SabeiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi ‎‎‎Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1412-5299
Awaji Y SafhiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi ‎‎‎Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2184-4339

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CXCL10 is a chemokine crucial for immune cell recruitment and inflammation modulation, especially ‎within the tumor microenvironment.‎ This review critically analyzes the underexplored role of CXCL10 in modulating ‎JAK/STAT, MAPK/ERK, and PI3K/Akt pathways across different tumor types, highlighting ‎inconsistencies in current research and proposing novel therapeutic strategies based on ‎research ‎from databases such as PubMed and Scopus. Future targeted therapies could ‎include personalized ‎approaches that either enhance the immunostimulatory functions of CXCL10‎ or inhibit its tumor promoting effects. Techniques such as CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of CXCL10 has demonstrated potential in preclinical models to ‎reduce tumor-promoting inflammation, while nanoparticle-based CXCL10 inhibitors enhance ‎immune checkpoint blockade efficacy in melanoma. In addition, targeting CXCL10-related mechanisms of immune evasion such as inhibition of CXCR3 may help to prevent metastasis. Futureresearch should focus on CXCL10-targeting approaches in highly immunosuppressive tumors, such as pancreatic and glioblastoma, where immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown limited efficacy.

Indexed as

Chemokine CXCL10ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansMolecular Targeted TherapySignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentChemokine CXCL10CXCL10 protein, humanCXCL10immune regulationsignaling pathwaytherapeutic ‎strategies‎tumor immune evasion ‎tumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40760734
PMCPMC12326575

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