Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20033157›Full record

ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2010

Testing the theory of immune selection in cancers that break the rules of transplantation.

Ariberto Fassati, N Avrion Mitchison

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2010. 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
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. The role of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in the spread of contagious cancers.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2011
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ariberto FassatiMRC Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, University College London, UK. a.fassati@ucl.ac.uk
N Avrion Mitchison
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0900950Medical Research Council G9721629Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modification of cancer cells likely to reduce their immunogenicity, including loss or down-regulation of MHC molecules, is now well documented and has become the main support for the concept of immune surveillance. The evidence that these modifications, in fact, result from selection by the immune system is less clear, since the possibility that they may result from reorganized metabolism associated with proliferation or from cell de-differentiation remains. Here, we (a) survey old and new transplantation experiments that test the possibility of selection and (b) survey how transmissible tumours of dogs and Tasmanian devils provide naturally evolved tests of immune surveillance.

Indexed as

Immunologic SurveillanceTumor EscapeAnimalsHistocompatibility AntigensHumansNeoplasmsNeoplasm TransplantationHistocompatibility Antigens

Identifiers

PMID20033157
PMCPMC2831185
OpenAlexW2049723368

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Registered trials

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