Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11999171›Full record

ReviewImmunologic research2002

Designing immunotoxins for cancer therapy.

Christopher A Pennell, Heidi A Erickson

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Review in Immunologic research, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher A PennellUniversity of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis 55455, USA. penne001@umn.edu
Heidi A Erickson
Masonic Cancer Center

Funding

TRAINING GRANT IN MICROBIOLOGY/CANCER RESEARCHT32CA009138 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Scott M. Dehm · 1985 to 2026
$11.3M
DESIGN AND USE OF CD7-SPECIFIC RECOMBINANT IMMUNOTOXINSR29CA059510 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI PENNELL, CHRISTOPHER A · 1994 to 1998
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NCI NIH HHS R29 CA59510NCI NIH HHS T32 CA09138-26
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotoxins are therapeutic agents with a high degree of specificity and unique mechanism of action. An immunotoxin is a chimeric protein consisting of a targeting moiety linked to a toxin. The targeting moiety selectively binds to a tumor cell and targets it for death via the attached toxin. Generally, immunotoxins are specifically potent against cancer cells in vitro and in animal models of human malignancies. However, immunotoxins can be limited clinically by immunogenicity, toxicity, and instability. In this review, we offer ways to overcome these limitations to create "ideal immunotoxins" for cancer therapy. These include producing single chain targeting/toxin fusion proteins of fully human origin that are extracellularly stable but once internalized, can be cleaved by intracellular proteases to free the toxin and facilitate its translocation to the cytosol.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansImmunotoxinsNeoplasmsImmunotoxins

Identifiers

PMID11999171
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