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ArticleJournal of Cancer2013

Dendritic cells in the cancer microenvironment.

Yang Ma, Galina V Shurin, Zhu Peiyuan, Michael R Shurin

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Article in Journal of Cancer, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 181 papers.

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181citing papers in PubMed
11.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

181 citing papers in PubMed, 359 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yang Ma1. Departments of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;
Galina V Shurin
Zhu Peiyuan
Michael R Shurin
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Chemomodulation of the Tumor MicroenvironmentR01CA154369 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SHURIN, MICHAEL R · 2011 to 2015
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA154369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complexity of the tumor immunoenvironment is underscored by the emergence and discovery of different subsets of immune effectors and regulatory cells. Tumor-induced polarization of immune cell differentiation and function makes this unique environment even more intricate and variable. Dendritic cells (DCs) represent a special group of cells that display different phenotype and activity at the tumor site and exhibit differential pro-tumorigenic and anti-tumorigenic functions. DCs play a key role in inducing and maintaining the antitumor immunity, but in the tumor environment their antigen-presenting function may be lost or inefficient. DCs might be also polarized into immunosuppressive/tolerogenic regulatory DCs, which limit activity of effector T cells and support tumor growth and progression. Although various factors and signaling pathways have been described to be responsible for abnormal functioning of DCs in cancer, there are still no feasible therapeutic modalities available for preventing or reversing DC malfunction in tumor-bearing hosts. Thus, better understanding of DC immunobiology in cancer is pivotal for designing novel or improved therapeutic approaches that will allow proper functioning of DCs in patients with cancer.

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dendritic cellsimmunosuppressionregulatory dendritic cellstumor escape.tumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID23386903
PMCPMC3564245
OpenAlexW2102282878

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