Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25075215›Full record

ReviewEcancermedicalscience2014

Adaptive immunity in cancer immunology and therapeutics.

Emma L Spurrell, Michelle Lockley

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In one paragraph

Review in Ecancermedicalscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Fluorogenic Granzyme A Substrates Enable Real-Time Imaging of Adaptive Immune Cell Activity.Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023
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  18. Bioactive Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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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.

Emma L SpurrellWhittington Health NHS Trust, Magdala Avenue, London N19 5NF, UK.
Michelle LockleyBarts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 13034
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast genetic alterations characteristic of tumours produce a number of tumour antigens that enable the immune system to differentiate tumour cells from normal cells. Counter to this, tumour cells have developed mechanisms by which to evade host immunity in their constant quest for growth and survival. Tumour-associated antigens (TAAs) are one of the fundamental triggers of the immune response. They are important because they activate, via major histocompatibility complex (MHC), the T cell response, an important line of defense against tumourigenesis. However, the persistence of tumours despite host immunity implies that tumour cells develop immune avoidance. An example of this is the up-regulation of inhibitory immune checkpoint proteins, by tumours, which induces a form of self-tolerance. The majority of monoclonal antibodies in clinical practice have been developed to target tumour-specific antigens. More recently there has been research in the down-regulation of immune checkpoint proteins as a way of increasing anti-tumour immunity.

Indexed as

adaptive immunityCTLA4immune tolerancemonoclonal antibodyPD-1PDL-1tumour-associated antigens

Identifiers

PMID25075215
PMCPMC4096025

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