Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17530025›Full record

ReviewOncogene2007

Novel antibodies as anticancer agents.

I Zafir-Lavie, Y Michaeli, Y Reiter

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Review in Oncogene, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Monoclonal Antibodies as Neurological Therapeutics.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Review
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  6. Nanotechnology in retinal drug delivery.International journal of ophthalmology · 2018
    Review
  7. Naïve Human Antibody Libraries for Infectious Diseases.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2017
    Review
  8. Article
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  11. Monocytes and macrophages in cancer: development and functions.Cancer microenvironment : official journal of the International Cancer Microenvironment Society · 2013
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  14. Anti-GD2 antibody therapy for GD2-expressing tumors.Current cancer drug targets · 2010
    Review
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  16. Immune therapies for neuroblastoma.Cancer biology & therapy · 2009
    Review
  17. Affinity and avidity in antibody-based tumor targeting.Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals · 2009
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  18. Article
  19. Antibody fragment expression and purification.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

I Zafir-LavieFaculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Y Michaeli
Y Reiter

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years antibodies, whether generated by traditional hybridoma technology or by recombinant DNA strategies, have evolved from Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullets' to a modern age 'guided missile'. In the recent years of immunologic research, we are witnessing development in the fields of antigen screening and protein engineering in order to create specific anticancer remedies. The developments in the field of recombinant DNA, protein engineering and cancer biology have let us gain insight into many cancer-related mechanisms. Moreover, novel techniques have facilitated tools allowing unique distinction between malignantly transformed cells, and regular ones. This understanding has paved the way for the rational design of a new age of pharmaceuticals: monoclonal antibodies and their fragments. Antibodies can select antigens on both a specific and a high-affinity account, and further implementation of these qualities is used to target cancer cells by specifically identifying exogenous antigens of cancer cell populations. The structure of the antibody provides plasticity resonating from its functional sites. This review will screen some of the many novel antibodies and antibody-based approaches that are being currently developed for clinical applications as the new generation of anticancer agents.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsAntibodies, NeoplasmAntigens, NeoplasmCytokinesHumansNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAntibodies, NeoplasmAntigens, NeoplasmCytokinesReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

Identifiers

PMID17530025

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