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ReviewExpert opinion on therapeutic targets2010

Targeting the TLR9-MyD88 pathway in the regulation of adaptive immune responses.

Xiaopei Huang, Yiping Yang

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Review in Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Advances in nucleic acid-based cancer vaccines.Journal of biomedical science · 2025
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  19. Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase in Cancer Prevention.Journal of cancer prevention · 2023
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiaopei HuangDuke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Yiping Yang
Duke University Hospital · US

Funding

THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO OVARIAN/BREAST CANCER--HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY AND ABMSP01CA047741 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HASSELBLAD, VICTOR · 1990 to 2013
$19.5M
Novel Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy in Stem Cell TransplantR01CA136934 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, YIPING · 2009 to 2018
$3.4M
The Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Cancer ImmunotherapyR01CA111807 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, YIPING · 2005 to 2009
$1.7M
TLR Signaling in CD8 T Cell Response to Vaccinia VirusR21AI079366 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, YIPING · 2009 to 2010
$427k
NCI NIH HHS CA047741NCI NIH HHS CA111807NCI NIH HHS CA136934NCI NIH HHS P01 CA047741NCI NIH HHS R01 CA111807NCI NIH HHS R01 CA136934NIAID NIH HHS AI079366NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI079366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

importance of the fieldToll-like receptors (TLRs) are innate immune receptors critical in the innate immune defense against invading pathogens. Recent advances also reveal a crucial role for TLRs in shaping adaptive immune responses, conferring a potential therapeutic value to their modulation in the treatment of diseases. AREAS COVERED IN THIS REVIEW: The aim of this review is to discuss TLR9, the TLR9-MyD88 signaling pathway and its role in regulation of adaptive immune responses, as well as potential therapeutic implications by targeting this pathway. WHAT THE READER WILL GAIN: This review shows that the TLR9-MyD88 signaling pathway plays a critical role in promoting adaptive immune responses and that modulation of this pathway may have enormous therapeutic potential in enhancing vaccine potency, controlling autoimmunity, as well as improving the outcome of viral-vector-mediated gene therapy. TAKE HOME MESSAGE: Although TLR9 agonists have been used as adjuvants for enhancing vaccine potency, further exploitation of the TLR9-MyD88 pathway and its dynamic interaction with the immune system in vivo is needed to provide more effective therapeutic inventions in the design of vaccines for infectious diseases, allergies and cancer, in the control of autoimmunity, as well as in the improvement of viral-vector-mediated gene therapy.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunitySignal TransductionAdjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAutoimmunityGenetic TherapyHumansImmune SystemImmunity, InnateImmunotherapyMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88NeoplasmsToll-Like Receptor 9Adjuvants, ImmunologicMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88Toll-Like Receptor 9

Identifiers

PMID20560798
PMCPMC2917181
OpenAlexW2054850037

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