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ReviewThe international journal of biochemistry & cell biology2014

Cancer vaccines: Trafficking of tumor-specific T cells to tumor after therapeutic vaccination.

Yared Hailemichael, Willem W Overwijk

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Review in The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
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  6. Targeting Angiogenesis With Peptide Vaccines.Frontiers in immunology · 2019
    Review
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  8. Virus-Specific CD8Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2017
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Yared HailemichaelDepartment of Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Willem W OverwijkDepartment of Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: WOverwijk@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Promoting the generation of long-lived, anti-tumor memory T cells with IFN-alphaR01CA143077 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI OVERWIJK, WILLEM W · 2010 to 2014
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA143077
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer vaccines can induce robust activation of tumor-specific CD8(+) T cells that can destroy tumors. Understanding the mechanism by which cancer vaccines work is essential in designing next-generation vaccines with more potent therapeutic activity. We recently reported that short peptides emulsified in poorly biodegradable, Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant (IFA) primed CD8(+) T cells that did not localize to the tumor site but accumulated at the persisting, antigen-rich vaccination site. The vaccination site eventually became a T cell graveyard where T cells responded to chronically released gp100 peptide by releasing cytokines, including interferon-γ (IFN-γ), which in turn upregulated Fas ligand (FasL) on host cells, causing apoptosis of Fas(+) T cells. T cells that escaped apoptosis rapidly became exhausted, memory formation was poor, and therapeutic impact was minimal. Replacing the non-biodegradable IFA-based formulation with water-based, short-lived formulation in the presence of immunostimulatory molecules allowed T cells to traffic to tumors, causing their regression. In this review, we discuss recent advances in immunotherapeutic approaches that could enhance vaccine-primed immune cells fitness and render the tumor microenvironment more accessible for immune cell infiltration.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyCancer VaccinesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesFas Ligand Proteingp100 Melanoma AntigenHumansInterferon-gammaMelanomaPeptide FragmentsTumor MicroenvironmentCancer VaccinesFas Ligand Proteingp100 Melanoma AntigenInterferon-gammaPeptide FragmentsCancerImmunotherapyInflammationT cellsTrafficking

Identifiers

PMID24796845
PMCPMC4111967
OpenAlexW2000395251

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Registered trials

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