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Obesity and melanoma: Exploring molecular links

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, July 2013
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Title
Obesity and melanoma: Exploring molecular links
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Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, July 2013
DOI 10.1002/jcb.24549
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Authors

Jiezhong Chen, Mengna Chi, Chen Chen, Xu Dong Zhang

Abstract

Obesity is now a major health problem due to its rapidly increasing incidence worldwide and severe consequences. Among many conditions associated with obesity are some cancers including melanoma. Both genetic defects and environmental risk factors are involved in the carcinogenesis of melanoma. Activation of multiple signal pathways such as the PI3K/Akt and MAPK pathways are necessary for the initiation of melanoma. Activation of the MAPK pathway as a result of activating mutations in BRAF is commonly seen in melanoma though it alone is not sufficient to cause malignant transformation of melanocytes. Obesity can result in the activation of many signal pathways including PI3K/Akt, MAPK, and STAT3. The activation of these pathways may have a synergistic effect with the genetic defects thereby increasing the incidence of melanoma.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 24%
Researcher 7 24%
Student > Master 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Other 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 8 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 14%
Computer Science 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 8 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 April 2013.
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#16,699,002
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#2,932
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#125,766
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
#14
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