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ReviewCancer science2005

Tumor immunity against adult T-cell leukemia.

Mari Kannagi, Nanae Harashima, Kiyoshi Kurihara, Takashi Ohashi, Atae Utsunomiya, Ryuji Tanosaki, Masato Masuda, Masao Tomonaga, Jun Okamura

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Review in Cancer science, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. A plasma diagnostic model of human T-cell leukemia virus-1 associated myelopathy.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2015
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  15. Vaccines to prevent infections by oncoviruses.Annual review of microbiology · 2010
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  19. Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and HTLV-1.Current hematologic malignancy reports · 2007
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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

9 authors.

Mari KannagiDepartment of Immunotherapeutics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Medical Research Division, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan. kann.impt@tmd.ac.jp
Nanae Harashima
Kiyoshi Kurihara
Takashi Ohashi
Atae Utsunomiya
Ryuji Tanosaki
Masato Masuda
Masao Tomonaga
Jun Okamura

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human T-cell leukemia virus type-I (HTLV-I) causes adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) in a small population of infected individuals after a long incubation period. Although the process of clonal evolution of ATL cells may involve multiple steps, ATL cells from half of the ATL cases still retain the ability to express HTLV-I Tax, a key molecule of HTLV-I leukemogenesis. A recent finding of reactivation of Tax-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in ATL patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation suggests the presence of Tax expression in vivo and potential contribution of the CTL to antitumor immunity. This is consistent with the results of a series of animal experiments indicating that Tax-specific CTL limit the growth of HTLV-I-infected cells in vivo, although the animal model mimics only an early phase of HTLV-I infection and leukemogenesis. Establishment of an insufficient HTLV-I-specific T-cell response and an increased viral load in orally HTLV-I-infected rats suggests that host HTLV-I-specific T-cell response at a primary HTLV-I infection can be a critical determinant of persistent HTLV-I levels thereafter. These findings indicate that Tax-targeted vaccines may be effective for prophylaxis of ATL in a high-risk group, and also for therapy of ATL in at least half the cases.

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AnimalsAntigens, ViralDisease ProgressionHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-CellAntigens, Viral

Identifiers

PMID15904464
PMCPMC11158966

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