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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2013

Tumor-primed NK cells: waiting for the green light.

May Sabry, Mark W Lowdell

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05933070 (A Phase I Open-Label Dose Escalation Study Of Intravenous INKmune In Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome With Excess Blasts), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05933070 phase1terminatednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

A Phase I Open-Label Dose Escalation Study Of Intravenous INKmune In Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome With Excess Blasts (MDS-EB-1/2 - MDS-CMML 1/2) Or Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)

TypeinterventionalSponsorInmune Bio, Inc.Ran2020 to 2024Enrolled2ConditionsCancer, MDS-EB, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Acute Myeloid LeukemiaArmsINKmune
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

May SabryDepartment of Haematology, Royal Free Campus, University College London Medical School , London , UK.
Mark W Lowdell
The Royal Free Hospital · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The functional impairment of natural killer (NK) cells has been frequently reported in cancer studies. As one of the central components of host anti-tumor immunity, NK cells exert cellular cytotoxicity against tumor cells, and secrete a cytokine milieu to inhibit tumor progression and enable the recruitment of other immune cells to the tumor site. The unlocking of the full functional potential of NK cells requires successful progression through discrete activation stages that are tightly regulated by a complex array of signaling molecules. Target cell susceptibility to NK cell-mediated killing is dependent on the intensity and specific combination of ligand expression for NK cell receptors. Tumor cells utilize numerous strategies for evading NK cells, including the downregulation of important NK cell-activating ligands. Here, we review key studies on NK cell activation requirements, and argue, based on our findings from NK cell-tumor interactions, that the altered characteristics of tumor-associated NK cells are indicative of unmet signaling requirements for full NK cell activation, rather than NK cell dysfunction in cancer.

Indexed as

cancer immunotherapyCTV-1LFA-1natural killer cellsNK cell dysfunctionNKG2D

Identifiers

PMID24324471
PMCPMC3838973
OpenAlexW1969021168

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