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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007

In vivo imaging of T cell delivery to tumors after adoptive transfer therapy.

Mikael J Pittet, Jan Grimm, Cedric R Berger, Takahiko Tamura, Gregory Wojtkiewicz, Matthias Nahrendorf, Pedro Romero, Filip K Swirski, Ralph Weissleder

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 119 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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mikael J PittetCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Simches Research Building, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. mpittet@mgh.harvard.edu
Jan Grimm
Cedric R Berger
Takahiko Tamura
Gregory Wojtkiewicz
Matthias Nahrendorf
Pedro Romero
Filip K Swirski
Ralph Weissleder
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USLudwig Cancer Research · CH

Funding

StatisticsP50CA086355 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2000 to 2015
$27.8M
Tumor-Stroma Interacions in the Tumor MicroenvironmentU54CA126515 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HYNES, RICHARD O · 2006 to 2010
$6.5M
Small Animal Imaging Resource GrantR24CA092782 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, RALPH · 2001 to 2006
$4.2M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA086355NCI NIH HHS P50-CA086355NCI NIH HHS R24 CA092782NCI NIH HHS R24-CA92782NCI NIH HHS U54 CA126515NCI NIH HHS U54-CA126515-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive transfer therapy of in vitro-expanded tumor-specific cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can mediate objective cancer regression in patients. Yet, technical limitations hamper precise monitoring of posttherapy T cell responses. Here we show in a mouse model that fused single photon emission computed tomography and x-ray computed tomography allows quantitative whole-body imaging of (111)In-oxine-labeled CTLs at tumor sites. Assessment of CTL localization is rapid, noninvasive, three-dimensional, and can be repeated for longitudinal analyses. We compared the effects of lymphodepletion before adoptive transfer on CTL recruitment and report that combined treatment increased intratumoral delivery of CTLs and improved antitumor efficacy. Because (111)In-oxine is a Food and Drug Administration-approved clinical agent, and human SPECT-CT systems are available, this approach should be clinically translatable, insofar as it may assess the efficacy of immunization procedures in individual patients and lead to development of more effective therapies.

Indexed as

Adoptive TransferImmunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsAntigensCell Line, TumorCell MovementLymphopeniaMiceMice, Inbred BALB CNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesTomography Scanners, X-Ray ComputedAntigens

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PMID17640914
PMCPMC1941490
OpenAlexW2016026517

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