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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2012

Paths to stemness: building the ultimate antitumour T cell.

Luca Gattinoni, Christopher A Klebanoff, Nicholas P Restifo

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 382 papers.

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382citing papers in PubMed
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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

382 citing papers in PubMed.

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322 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

3 authors.

Luca GattinoniCenter for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. gattinol@mail.nih.gov
Christopher A Klebanoff
Nicholas P Restifo

Funding

Building on the success of the adoptive immunotherapy of cancerZIABC010763 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI ROSENBERG, STEVEN · 2009 to 2020
$25.0M
Programming T Cell Fates for Therapeutic UseZIABC011480 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI GATTINONI, LUCA · 2013 to 2019
$7.4M
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
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010763
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stem cells are defined by the ability to self-renew and to generate differentiated progeny, qualities that are maintained by evolutionarily conserved pathways that can lead to cancer when deregulated. There is now evidence that these stem cell-like attributes and signalling pathways are also shared among subsets of mature memory T lymphocytes. We discuss how using stem cell-like T cells can overcome the limitations of current adoptive T cell therapies, including inefficient T cell engraftment, persistence and ability to mediate prolonged immune attack. Conferring stemness to antitumour T cells might unleash the full potential of cellular therapies.

Indexed as

Adoptive TransferCell DifferentiationHematopoietic Stem CellsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansImmunologic MemoryNeoplasmsSignal TransductionT-Lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID22996603
PMCPMC6352980

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