Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23496668›Full record

ReviewExpert review of vaccines2013

Dendritic cells in cancer immunotherapy: vaccines and combination immunotherapies.

Pawel Kalinski, Ravikumar Muthuswamy, Julie Urban

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Recent Advances in Good Manufacturing Practice-Grade Generation of Dendritic Cells.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2020
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  17. Rationale for stimulator of interferon genes-targeted cancer immunotherapy.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2017
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  18. Tumor Immuno-Environment in Cancer Progression and Therapy.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2017
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  20. The past, present and future of immunotherapy against tumor.Translational lung cancer research · 2015
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pawel KalinskiDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. kalinskip@upmc.edu
Ravikumar Muthuswamy
Julie Urban
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Therapuetic Immune Targeting of EphA2 Expressed by Melanoma & Its Tumor-AssociateP50CA121973 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KIRKWOOD, JOHN MUNN · 2008 to 2018
$22.9M
Type-1 Antigen Presenting Cells in CNS Tumors - Key to Efficient Anti-Tumor T-CelP01CA132714 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KALINSKI, PAWEL · 2009 to 2013
$6.8M
CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF 19F MRI TO VISUALIZE CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC CELLSR01CA134633 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AHRENS, ERIC T., COHEN, EZRA · 2009 to 2021
$4.4M
NCI NIH HHS CA121973NCI NIH HHS CA132714NCI NIH HHS CA134633NCI NIH HHS P01 CA132714NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121973NCI NIH HHS R01 CA134633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) are specialized immunostimulatory cells involved in the induction and regulation of immune responses. The feasibility of large-scale ex vivo generation of DCs from patients' monocytes allows for therapeutic application of ex vivo-cultured DCs to bypass the dysfunction of endogenous DCs, restore immune surveillance, induce cancer regression or stabilization or delay or prevent its recurrence. While the most common paradigm of the therapeutic application of DCs reflects their use as cancer 'vaccines', additional and potentially more effective possibilities include the use of patients' autologous DCs as parts of more comprehensive therapies involving in vivo or ex vivo induction of tumor-reactive T cells and the measures to counteract systemic and local immunosuppression in tumor-bearing hosts. Ex vivo-cultured DCs can be instructed to acquire distinct functions relevant for the induction of effective cancer immunity (DC polarization), such as the induction of different effector functions or different homing properties of tumor-specific T cells (delivery of 'signal 3' and 'signal 4'). These considerations highlight the importance of the application of optimized conditions for the ex vivo culture of DCs and the potential combination of DC therapies with additional immune interventions to facilitate the entry of DC-induced T cells to tumor tissues and their local antitumor functions.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesCells, CulturedDendritic CellsDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesCancer Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID23496668
PMCPMC6542562
OpenAlexW2147685974

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