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ReviewCancer immunity2012

Translating basic mechanisms of IgG effector activity into next generation cancer therapies.

Falk Nimmerjahn, Jeffrey V Ravetch

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Review in Cancer immunity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 85 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Falk NimmerjahnDivision of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Jeffrey V Ravetch
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DERockefeller University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype have become a well-established therapeutic tool for the targeting of malignant cells in tumor patients. Despite tremendous success in the treatment of lymphoma and breast cancer, it has also become clear that we may not be able to further improve antibody therapy of cancer by simply generating more tumor-specific antibodies with a higher affinity. Instead, the work of many groups in the past years suggests that optimizing the recruitment of effector functions provided by the adaptive and innate immune systems via engineering of the IgG constant domain may hold great promise to achieve enhanced therapeutic activities. A major goal in cancer therapy would be to initiate adaptive immune responses to the patient's tumor that would result in long-term protection against recurrence. The use of immunostimulatory antibodies shows great promise in stimulating adaptive immune responses. Surprisingly, recent studies also implicate an important role for the antibody constant domain in the activity of these molecules in vivo, opening up new possibilities to further improve the activity of immunomodulatory antibodies by Fc engineering.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsAntibodies, BispecificHumansImmunoglobulin GNeoplasmsReceptors, FcTranslational Research, BiomedicalAntibodies, BispecificImmunoglobulin GReceptors, Fcantibodycancer therapyFc engineeringFc receptorinflammation

Identifiers

PMID22896758
PMCPMC3380343
OpenAlexW2165437317

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