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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2007

Toll-like receptors in tumor immunotherapy.

Chrystal M Paulos, Andrew Kaiser, Claudia Wrzesinski, Christian S Hinrichs, Lydie Cassard, Andrea Boni, Pawel Muranski, Luis Sanchez-Perez, Douglas C Palmer, Zhiya Yu and 4 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

14 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chrystal M PaulosNational Cancer Institute, NIH, Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1502, USA. chrystalp@hotmail.com
Andrew Kaiser
Claudia Wrzesinski
Christian S Hinrichs
Lydie Cassard
Andrea Boni
Pawel Muranski
Luis Sanchez-Perez
Douglas C Palmer
Zhiya Yu
Paul A Antony
Luca Gattinoni
Steven A Rosenberg
Nicholas P Restifo
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Building on the success of the adoptive immunotherapy of cancerZ01BC010763 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI RESTIFO, NICHOLAS P · 2006 to 2008
$6.4M
THE IMMUNOTHERAPY OF ANIMAL AND HUMAN CANCERZ01SC003811 · SC · CLINICAL SCIENCES · PI ROSENBERG, STEVEN A · 1996 to 2007
$3.2M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010763Intramural NIH HHS Z01 SC003811Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymphodepletion with chemotherapeutic agents or total body irradiation (TBI) before adoptive transfer of tumor-specific T cells is a critical advancement in the treatment of patients with melanoma. More than 50% of patients that are refractory to other treatments experience an objective or curative response with this approach. Emerging data indicate that the key mechanisms underlying how TBI augments the functions of adoptively transferred T cells include (a) the depletion of regulatory T cells (T(reg)) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells that limit the function and proliferation of adoptively transferred cells; (b) the removal of immune cells that act as "sinks" for homeostatic cytokines, whose levels increase after lymphodepletion; and (c) the activation of the innate immune system via Toll-like receptor 4 signaling, which is engaged by microbial lipopolysaccharide that translocated across the radiation-injured gut. Here, we review these mechanisms and focus on the effect of Toll-like receptor agonists in adoptive immunotherapy. We also discuss alternate regimens to chemotherapy or TBI, which might be used to safely treat patients with advanced disease and promote tumor regression.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsHumansIntestinesLymphocyte DepletionMiceNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesToll-Like ReceptorsWhole-Body IrradiationToll-Like Receptors

Identifiers

PMID17875756
PMCPMC2131730
OpenAlexW2141985710

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